Black Czechs

The documentary film maps the extraordinary fate of Namibian children who grew up in Czechoslovakia. They describe themselves as black Czechs, regardless of whether they live in Namibia, or have returned to the Czech Republic. In the 1980s, 56 Namibian children were brought up in socialist Czechoslovakia. The special education program of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia aimed to raise a new generation of politically aware elites from the children. This political experiment failed in the early 1990s as a result of major political changes in both countries. Without completing their primary education and without any linguistic and psychological training, the children were forcibly resettled in Namibia, where they failed to adapt culturally. (Academia Film Olomouc)