Great Green Wall, The

[Opens April 22 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org. It is also available on Amazon Prime video and played April 22 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] Jared P. Scott's poignant, eye-opening, educational, insightful, sometimes depressing, inspirational, 92-minute, 2019 documentary dotted with uplifting music in which Mali-born singer Inna Modja leads a continent-wide pilgrimage across the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert from Senegal to Ethiopia to showcase Africa's ambitious efforts, which began in 2007, to erect an 8,000-km wall of trees as a life-affirming and Africa-affirming response to the political and religious violence that has occurred and to combat climate change and especially the devastating droughts and desertification, which have claimed an enormous human toll through death and mass emigration to Europe.
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