TIMED DIALOGUE LIST FOR SONS OF AFRICA for Journeyman Pictures

01:00:02:16 : “We will light a candle on top of Kilimanjaro giving hope where there is despair, love where there is hate, and dignity where there was only humiliation.” Julius Nyerere, Founding Father of Tanzania.

01:00:24:19: BECKET: (VO): At 19,341 feet, Kilimanjaro is the highest free-standing mountain in the world. A now dormant volcano, Kilimanjaro looms over the savannas of the northern edge of East Africa’s Rift Valley, the birthplace of the human race.

01:00:49:18 : BECKET: (VO): While thousands--like me--attempt this climb every year, more climbers have died on Kilimanjaro than on Everest.

01:01:05:05: BECKET: (VO): Everyone has their own reasons for wanting to climb this mountain. For Madaraka and Jaffar, it’s a Peace Climb--a journey of reconciliation.

01:01:16:16: SONS OF AFRICA

01:01:33:11: BECKET: (VO): In 1978 two East African countries went to war when Uganda invaded Tanzania. The brutal war lasted for nearly a year. Many saw it as a battle for the soul of post-colonial Africa. The first war between independent African states.

01:02:06:08: BECKET: (VO): Would Africa’s future be that of military strongmen or socialist visionaries?

01:02:16:26: BECKET: (VO): A world defined by Idi Amin Dada, the dictator of Uganda? Or Julius Nyerere, the president and founding father of Tanzania?

01:02:33:23: BECKET: (VO): These are their sons.

01:02:38:23: BECKET: (VO): Madaraka Nyerere

01:02:45:06: BECKET: (VO): and Jaffar Amin.

01:02:59:09: BECKET: All right, so we’re off, we’re off.

01:03:02:27: BECKET: (VO): And that’s me, Jim Becket.

01:03:10:27: BECKET: (VO): My father was a country lawyer, not a head of state. My only concern at the moment is whether I can make it to the top of this mountain. Only thirty percent make it to the summit.

01:03:27:16: CHILD: Kilimanjaro! Kilimanjaro! Kilimanjaro!

01:03:32:18: BECKET: (VO): I’m not sure what lies ahead for us, but we are to climb through five distinct climate zones, each with their own beauty and risks.

01:03:45:18: Tropical Rain Forest 1800 – 2800 meters

01:03:45:27: BECKET: (VO): Tropical rainforest

01:03:50:03: Heath Zone 2800 – 3200 meters

01:03:50:21: BECKET: (VO): Heath zone

01:03:54:27: Moorland 3200 – 3950 meters

01:03:55:16: BECKET: (VO): Moorland

01:03:58:24: Alpine Desert 3950 – 5000 meters

01:03:59:10: BECKET: (VO): Alpine Desert

01:04:02:14: Arctic Zone 5000 – 5895 meters

01:04:03:14 : BECKET: (VO): And the treacherous icy wasteland of the Arctic Zone, where we hope on the seventh day to reach Uhuru Peak, the roof of Africa.

01:04:20:14: BECKET: I want to thank you both, particularly Madaraka who got me into this. And I am nervous about getting to the top.

01:04:27:16: MADARAKA: You shouldn’t be.

01:04:28:00: BECKET: I’m seventy-four years old but I have the support of everyone. So, all right, so off we go.

01:04:35:24: DAY ONE Elevation: 2199 meters

01:04:46:18: MADARAKA: We call it the Kagera War in Tanzania, but it was the war fought between Tanzania and Uganda in 1979 and that’s when everyone decided that our two fathers are enemies. That I think is not right.

01:05:07:12: JAFFAR: It was as basic as that; it was by the way.

01:05:11:26: MADARAKA: Well OK maybe, I don’t know.

01:05:13:21: JAFFAR: Truth be told. Truth be told.

01:05:18:27: BECKET: (VO): Ugandans cheered General Amin when he took power in 1971. They admired him for standing up to British colonialism.

01:05:30:22: BECKET: (VO): Julius Nyerere is revered as one of the great leaders of 20th Century Africa. The scholarly Nyerere was one of the key figures in the Pan African movement for liberation from colonialism.

01:05:497:08: BECKET: (VO): Who won? Or nobody wins wars.

01:05:53:09: MADARAKA: No. Well actually no one wins wars. Tanzania is supposed to have won the war, but we entered a period, a very difficult economic period with a debt that was caused by the war, and that was a very difficult period after the war.

01:06:15:05: BECKET: (VO): Although a very poor country, Julius Nyerere left a unified and peaceful Tanzania, free of the violence and civil wars of its neighbors. Idi Amin fled to Libya, eventually settling in Saudi Arabia.

01:06:33:13: BECKET: (VO): And what does that war mean for you Jaffar, personally.

01:06:37:13: JAFFAR : Exile. Flight. Culture Clash. Coming from the beauty of the equatorial region to desert of North Africa.

01:06:59:08: BECKET: (VO): For me, it’s a return to Africa where I worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the 1970’s, the same period that Madaraka and Jaffar’s fathers were in power.

01:07:19:00: BECKET: (VO): I dealt with many groups of refugees, including Ugandans fleeing for their lives from Idi Amin’s regime.

01:07:30:06: BECKET: (VO): The Tanzanian army repelled the Ugandan invasion and Julius Nyerere chose to go on into Uganda. After a series of battles his troops captured the capital, Kampala, overthrowing the Amin regime.

01:07:55:09: BECKET: (VO): How lucky I am to make this climb with these two men. I’m full of questions. What were the father son relationships like? Was it a curse or a blessing to be the son of a powerful leader? And what are their views on Africa today? And what do they think of each other? I hope I can make it far enough up the mountain to get some answers. And maybe we’ll become friends.

01:08:42:13: JAFFAR: Seventy-nine was a nasty thing, but it started way back when they said we cannot have a soldier, his father would say we cannot have a soldier as a ruler.

01:08:56:00: MADARAKA: I was in high school in a region of Tanzania called Shinyanga. We used to see army convoys passing through going to the warfront.  My thoughts were apprehension actually, everyone was apprehensive.

01:09:153:13: JAFFAR: Africans don’t forgive. They hit, they hit, they hit.

01:09:23:18 JAFFAR: In the 1980’s there was incredible retribution. From 1979 all the way to 1986. You were practically killed for being a particular religion, you were practically killed for being a Kakwa or from the West Nile Region. If you put Idi Amin’s name or his picture in your room. Believe you me they would mete out retribution to you.

09:51:18: BECKET: (VO): Increasingly paranoid, Idi Amin became known as the Butcher of Uganda. His corrupt, blood soaked rule lasted from 1971 to 1979. The number of imprisoned, tortured and murdered in his reign of terror is estimated by international observers and human rights groups like Amnesty International to be between 300 and 500,000 Ugandans.

01:10:25:09: JAFFAR: But today especially going back to my books or whenever I’m represented in the media or on my website, I insist on Jaffar Amin. The association is important because no one in my family feel they have the courage to stand up and be counted. And that quality in humanity if that is lost with over sixty kids, I feel hurt, and yet Dad at the dinner table would say, ‘”You write down everything I’m telling you.” They remember that, but they don’t do it. 'Nataka nyinyi naadika kila kitu'. If I say it in Swahili they might remember, because that is how he used to say it at the dinner table.

01:11:34:05: BECKET: We walk at this very slow--seems to be slow—pace. But apparently that’s how you make it.

01:11:46:04: INNOCENT: And if you take pole pole--that means slowly slowly--up to the high altitude, you’ll reach around the high attitude until you’re feeling good. And if you walk fast, when you reach the high altitude, you’ll have headache, and the headache is kind of starting high altitude mountain sickness and we don’t want you to get that.

01:12:14:04: JAFFAR: (VO): Where is my place, especially in East Africa. They claim my father destroyed it.

01:12:21:12: MADARAKA: On my part there is a very strong symbolism that we can take from the past, the fact that our countries, at a certain time, were at war and his father was leading the other country and my father was leading Tanzania. And now the fact that we can come together I think is a very good thing.

01:12:59:25: DAY TWO Elevation 2590 meters

01:13:12:10: JAFFAR: (VO): End of the jungle section, into the sunlight.

01:13:40:25: BECKET: (VO): This last part was very tiring; it was just a steady, steady climb. So I’m breathing that’s for sure.

01:13:50:17: BECKET: It’s just putting one foot after the other. And this is really big country up here, I mean as far as you can see it’s just big, big country.

01:14:03:04: JAFFAR: I just spent about two, three weeks, never jumping into a car, just walking…you get friends, “Toot, toot, toot, why are you walking?” I said, “In a month’s time I’m going to climb a mountain.” They thought I was jiving. “Jaffar with his stories . . .” But I’m here. And it’s helping me.

01:14: 40:21: BECKET: What the oldest person you’ve taken up the mountain?

01:14:44:05: YAHOO: Yeah I’ve taken the older people 63…64…

01:14:51:22: BECKET: 63…64…So how old am I… how old am I?

01:14:59:00: YAHOO: You? How old are you?

01:15:08:20: BECKET: Yes, I’m asking you.

01:15:02:03: YAHOO: You are, I think, 67?

01:15:05:05: BECKET: 67. Actually I’m 74.

01:15:07:17: YAHOO: 74?

01:15:08:03: BECKET: And I’ll be 75 when we come down. So you have to get me to the top. And, then you can tell the next person, “I’ve taken someone 74, so don’t worry it will be fine.”

01:15:20:24: YAHOO: Yes, according to my impression you are really strong and up to this moment you are in good condition so trust that you are going to make it.

01:15:32:02: BECKET: That’s all propaganda I don’t believe him for a moment, but we’ll see.

01:15:34:19: YAHOO: No, no this is not propaganda. We are going to do it.

01:15:37:11: BECKET: All right, good.

01:15:41:00: JAFFAR: It’s a quest to discover yourself. And how you fit into society and that there is goodness in somebody. It comes out.

01:15:54:20: JAFFAR: I know my father’s perfume. He normally went for expensive rose oil, the traditional Arab. And as soon as it hits me, as soon as it hit me, I said, “Let’s have one of you.” You want to tell a parent or a child from the scent. As soon as it goes like so, I just remember the person. And this time I said I’d go up the hill with him. That’s the reason I came with Idi Amin’s prayer beads. They were with Aliga Amin, but Aliga, something told him to give it to Jaffar, maybe they were supposed to go up this hill.

01:16: 46:06: JAFFAR: I come from a massive family, upwards of sixty children, officially we claim we’re forty, but I’ve personally counted, I’ve tabulated it up to sixty. Getting that window of opportunity with your parent from such an extremely large family--and then somebody who was more or less a king in his society, a ruler rather than a statesman. It means we had very little time with him.

01:17:21:08: JAFFAR: As a toddler I came to State House to meet with Disney World. For all those eight years, from a village life-- a village urchin--to a first son.

01:17:50:13: MADARAKA: We didn’t have so much contact with families of other leaders, of other heads of state or presidents. And so when we were growing up we didn’t have anything to compare our childhood with. We were taken to schools which every other Tanzanian went to, so we didn’t go to any special schools. And that was normal to us, we didn’t think we had to live a better life than others; we had to compete on merit, on our grades, not on our names, on who our father was.

01:18:34:11: JAFFAR: All the way! Ju ju ju ju!

01:18:51:24 JAFFAR: Somehow in exile we bonded in an amazing way. And that’s what I’ve put in my book. I selfishly focused on what was my relationship to this man--this misunderstood man, this man who shares both accolade and abhorrence equally.

01:19:35:03: DAY THREE Elevation 3850 meters

01:20:17:20: JAFFAR: He’s more jolly than I expected; he’s such a reserved fellow.

01:20:25:09: JAFFAR: (VO): My father represented manhood in Africa, masculinity, virility. He was one of Africa’s ultimate strongmen, but also I think that’s where Africa gained its weakness from, because it was so easy to point at him and say, “That is absolute power; how can any one man have so much power?”

01:21:03:01: MADARAKA: (VO): Most people I meet in Tanzania, they immediately compare me to him. And so they expect to see certain values he upheld, in me. So I don’t think it’s so much pressure as, generally, I accept the values that he upheld. It’s not like I’m struggling to keep up with what he tried to be in his life.

01:21:43:27: JAFFAR: My father, he’s an icon in the Pan Africanist movement. And that’s the whole point of actually coming to the best example of Pan Africanism--which so happened to be the one person who did not accept him. That’s Mwalimu Nyerere. He just didn’t feel that this military man belonged in the executive of any country. That friction was so strong.

01:22:21:16: JAFFAR: There’s an amazing sense of achievement and then you start seeing what I call Mama Africa. It’s almost impossible to think you can end up at the peak, looking at it from here. You see, with Africans, we tend to have a reverence for hills. Hilltops just have a certain spiritual reverence. And for me, this is the ultimate.

01:23:56:20: BUTIAMA, TANZANIA

01:22:07:29: MADARAKA: This house here is where--when my father was President—it’s the house where we used to come to, where he used to spend his end of year holidays in December. It’s the only house that he owned at that time.

01:23:18:29: JAFFAR: I want you guys to come see my home, my father’s home. It’s remained a rubble. There’s only the military quarter guard. And that, ironically, is where his children come to stay when they feel a need to go home.

01:23:37:25: MADARAKA: The other thing I think is his integrity; he avoided some of the problems we’ve experienced with other leaders. He was not a corrupt person. He did not amass wealth, public wealth.

01:23:57:03: MADARAKA: Now even his colleagues in government, when they saw this house, they felt that it was too small, even for a socialist President. And so they decided to build another house for him on the other side of the village.

01:24:16:17: MADARAKA: This house was built for my father by the Tanzanian army as a present to him, the Commander in Chief, for winning the war against Uganda’s Idi Amin. It took a long time to construct and it was completed in 1999 just a few weeks before he died. So he spent less than fourteen days in this house.

01:24:44:04: MADARKA: Let me take you inside.

01:24:46:26: MADARAKA: This is my father’s collection of books. There are more than 8000 books here. He read a lot of books all the time. And he read almost everything which is in here.

01:25:05:21: MADARAKA: We have some visitors who, as soon as they arrive here, it creates such emotion within them. Because some say, “Without your father’s policies, educational policies--my parents who were very poor--I would have never gone to school.” So as soon as they see his grave, they become very emotional.

01:25:38:10: BECKET: (VO): Would your father have approved of this?

01:25:40:20: MADARAKA: I don’t think so, I don’t think so. Actually he left instructions to be buried near here, near where he was born. I’m sure if he knew about this he would have left instructions not to have any complicated structures around his grave.

01:26:04:27: MADARAKA: My father was a Catholic and after he died there was a proposal that came from the bishop of the area where he is buried proposing him as a candidate for canonization--to be declared a saint.

01:26:25:11: BECKET: (VO): For me no politician can be a saint. The drive to power demands unholy choices. Julius Nyerere ruled a one party socialist state for twenty-four years. People disappeared. Political prisoners were tortured. While the horrors of Idi Amin’s jails dwarfed those of Nyerere’s, I remember in 1977 Amnesty International listed 141 Tanzanian ‘prisoners of conscience.’

01:27:05:13: BECKET: (VO): I’d written the first Amnesty International Report on Torture and a book on torture by the military junta in Greece. In my opinion there is no rationale to justify torture--no matter who does it or why. There is much to admire about Nyerere and history doesn’t allow us to know what an alternative would have been. Every nation requires a positive heroic story of its origin. And in Tanzania’s story, Julius Nyerere is the hero.

01:27:51:16: BECKET: Compared to the complexities of history, climbing a mountain is simple.

01:28:01:09: JAFFAR: The only good time I really got--and it was the saddest time in our whole life--you know, coming from a height of leadership, the humiliation of defeat and the fall. The ultimate fall was 1979, but for me, at age 12, that was my awakening. Finally, we got our father to ourselves.

01:28:27:00: JAFFAR: But exile gave me that opportunity to talk to him. Because he was weak with reading any book--whether it was Newsbook magazine or a novel. They were churning those out. Post 1979 there were people reviewing his history, his legacy. He’d give it to me so I was able to read the controversy and believe it. Then we’d go into the arguments and he’d say, “No, no, this is how it happened.” I’d say, “But, but, but look! Here it said . . !”  You know how you can believe what’s written? He’d say, “Are you going to listen to what they’ve said about me? Who’s the author?”

01:29:21:20: DAY FOUR: Elevation 3960 meters

01:29:30:07: BECKET: Well we’re about to start Day Four and this is going to start to be the big test as we’ll be going up to 4600 meters. And once you get over 14000 feet, then you’ll see if you’re going to get altitude sickness.

01:30:01:16: JAFFAR: I have this fear that first sons across the continent--whether their fathers had Swiss accounts or not--have to give something back to society. The onus is on us to be seen to be giving something back to society.

01:30:26:00: CAMERAMAN: How high are we now?

01:30:27:18: MADARAKA: It should be more than 4000.

01:30:31:29: BECKET: We’re over 4000 now.

01:30:40:06: CAMERAMAN: How are you feeling?

01:30:41:13: MADARAKA: I’m feeling okay.

01:30:53:04: CAMERAMAN: You alright?

01:30:54:22: YOUNG MAN: Uh-huh

01:30:55:23: CAMERMAN: What do you think Yahoo? Is he alright?

01:30:57:17: Yahoo: Yeah I’m all right. And how about you?

01:31:00:00 BECKET: Ah, a little weak actually.

01:31:07:24: YAHOO: The Maasai, they pronounce that mountain, they call it, ‘Kilimanjari.’ Misty mountain of water. And they believe that they got water from the mountain. And for another tribe, the Chagga tribe, they call it ‘Kilima Kyaro.’ The same thing . . . the mountain of water.

01:32:05:11: JAFFAR: Slush puppy! Kilimani slush puppy! Kilimani slush puppy! That’s enough.

01:32:10:21: CAMERMAN: That’s a snow cone?

01:32:15:29: JAFFAR: The real thing.

01:32:18:29: MADARAKA: When we are together, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, I’m trying to focus on what we can do, what positive things we can do together, in the future. Now or in the future. And I, sometimes, you might have noticed at the last camp, there were people who recognized me. And they said—these are the rangers—they asked to take a photograph with me in the morning. So I did. And then I said, “Have you taken a photograph with Jaffar?” They said, “Oh yes, yes, we have to take it!”

01:32:56:23: MADARAKA: So I’m not trying…I don’t want the slide just for myself. It should be seen that we are together. This is very important for me.

01:33:08:23: JAFFAR: African leaders always act like chiefs or kings. That’s the way they rule. They expect us to be subjects. That is the dilemma Africa is still grappling with. Even with the so-called Arab Spring in the North of Africa, the most uneasy people are south of the Sahara. Because they know, they’ve always ruled in a particular way, which was actually copying the Colonial format.

01:33:51:25: JAFFAR: My father’s legacy was unshackling the actual chains, the strings attached. Today I call the IMF and the World Bank, ‘strings attached,’ but right then it was just the colonialists who did not relinquish—so Africa was a land of opportunity right from the start. But the sadness of Africa was that the invaders, the colonizers, the plunderers felt they had to dehumanize the population to enable them to take what they felt they deserved.

01:34:33:00: JAFFAR: My father was in a different category altogether. He actually lived the colonial era. So he was able to say, “You know what? We want economic independence.” And that’s what he focused on. He was a typical soldier. He was a typical British soldier. The misunderstanding was that an African was actually using the same form of command, the same form of rulership that the colonialists used on us for over seventy-two years.

01:35:26:29: DAY FIVE Elevation 4270 meters

01:35:38:18: JAFFAR: There is a strong feeling of achievement just getting here. Yesterday was my daughter’s twelfth birthday. She is now a teenager. She’s called Sauda Aate. By the time she’s sixteen…because she’s more like me than the rest. The others love their mother. The boys are more attached to their mother. But the girl—she’s the apple of my eye. When she’s sixteen, I want to be able to stand with her right here, early in the morning.

01:36:25:15: BARRANCO WALL

01:36:40:28: JAFFAR: Finding the best route up—you have to take it nice and slow. With some good hours we’ll get to a place called Baraf, which simply means “ice” in Swahili. Baraf.

01:36:57:04: BECKET: All my life, I’m used to being the most athletic—first. I was always agile and had good balance. But suddenly in this group, I’m the weak link. And that’s very, very strange for me. So it’s very important I get to the top of the mountain, though I do have my doubts at this point. I’m not sure I’m going to make it.

01:38:04:21: BECKET: What’s the difference between a hike, a trek and a climb? This is a climb. Technical climb? I doubt it. But this is a climb.

01:38:22:13: BECKET: (VO): I can’t stop thinking about all those who have died up here. They’ve died from acute altitude sickness, edemas of the lung, edemas of the brain--one misstep and you could tumble onto the rocks below.

01:38:46:26: MADARAKA: Sometimes porters die—this way of life. And so they mark the spot where one of the porters died while he was working. They might know who it is, but Hamisi says—he just knows it is someone from Arusha, but he doesn’t know the name.

01:39:26:25: MADARAKA: One step at a time. If you consider maybe the five million steps, it makes sense.

01:39:43:15: JAFFAR: There are things I know better than he does, and there are a lot he knows better than I do. He has a cordial approach to life, just like his dad. And if I can reduce my arrogance enough to learn from Madaraka—I feel I have a lot I can learn. And learning from him is very important for me.

01:40:20:26: DAY SIX Elevation 4670 meters

01:40:34:06: JAFFAR: He was using something that was a tried and tested way of ruling Africa. And unfortunately the same strong man style of rulership is still with us today. We still have not turned the corner.

01:40:46:18: MALI AMADOU SANOGO

01:40:50:03: ZIMBABWE ROBERT MUGABE

01:40:53:03: SUDAN OMAR HASSAN AL-BASHIR

01:40:57:00: MADARAKA: In our tribe, there is this system where you have people going through various stages. And so these elders, they reach a stage where there is a word they use, it’s called ‘kunatuka.’ ‘Kunatuka’ means, ‘stepping down’--stepping down and allowing the younger generation to step into the leadership positions.

01:41:23:03: JAFFAR: I’m a great admirer of the present President in America. He purposefully went to Ghana and said, “We don’t need Strong Men. We need good policies. We’re trying to push the African mindset away from the big man, the strong man, the virile man, the macho man to statesman--somebody who can get good processes in place, policies in place. And actually work for the people, not for their own aggrandizement.

01:42:14:24: BECKET: It’s just one step after another. And all of a sudden it’s one slow step after another. And all you’ve got are the thoughts in your head. Both good and bad. The only time I get some relief is listening to Jaffar talk or yodel.

01:42:57:09: BECKET: (VO): I can hardly see. Our fate is totally in the hands of our leader, our guide, Yahoo. He sets the pace – pole pole.

01:43:14:20: JAFFAR: Our guide has an incredible rhythm. Yahoo is somebody amazing. He knows how to pace. And he’s very aware of the age categories within the group. I believe we are all going to make it up there. One hundred percent.

01:43:51:16: BECKET: Ahhh.

01:43:51:29: JAFFAR: Keep close to the rock.

01:43:53:05: BECKET: The slightest extra exertion. Just keep going.

01:44:20:02: BECKET: Boy, that last part was all willpower. Yeah, I’m breathing really hard. I have my doubts. It was hard.

01:44:34:05: JAFFAR: You can’t stop but feel a sense of reverence every time you look at this great mountain. And to think that by midnight tonight we will be going for the final assault. I’m just looking forward to it so long as we just keep that steady pace.

01:45:14:14: DAY 7 MIDNIGHT Elevation 5750 meters

01:45:16:18: JAFFAR: I’m effort. (unintelligible). Why sunscreen? Why the need? I’ve got natural melanin. Why sunscreen? I always fight against this. I don’t know why.

01:45:35:11: BECKET: I’m ready. I’m pretty scared actually. About failing.

01:45:48:05: JAFFAR: All aboard! The night train!

01:46:11:13: BECKET(VO): Kilimanjaro, out of all the seven continental summits, has one of the highest failure rates. So many get turned back on this last seven hour, painful grind to the top.

01:46:28:18: MADARAKA: Get your balance before you take your next step. That’s very important because sometimes you might step—you might think you are stepping on stable ground and suddenly find that you are stepping on something that is not stable. You might twist your ankle. So just try to get a firm footing on your leg before you take the next step.

01:47:01:11: BECKET: Each breath I suck in shoots a sharp pain to my ribs. I’ve got an excuse now to go back down.

01:47:11:06: BECKET: This is the hardest thing I have ever done.

01:47:23:29: BECKET: (VO): They say it’s a good thing to climb this at night, because if you could see how far and how steep it was, you’d go back down.

01:47:45:15: BECKET: But there’s no choice now. There’s only one way. And that’s up.

01:48:22:19: GUIDES (SINGING): Na Mawenzi, Na Mawenzi mlima mrefu sana. Ewe Nyoka, Ewe Nyoka... Ewe Nyoka, Ewe Nyoka mbona wanizunguka.

01:48:58:25: JAFFAR: It won’t be getting light for 30 minutes. Too many clouds.

01:49:11:20: GUIDE: (VO): (unintelligible-- Swahili.)

01:49:25.07: JAFFAR: How can you love somebody that others claim is not politically correct, or amoral, or immoral to world sensibilities or religious sensibilities? Yet he is revered in the Muslim world. We have one point seven billion—he’s revered amongst them. But the Western world, per se, not religiously, just abhors the man. And then when you come to the Africans, by God, he is a hero. He is an icon in the pan africanist movement. You ask yourself, OK. I think he took a stand and he said, “You guys, colonialism was wrong. Slavery was wrong. Racism was wrong.” I think that is where he gains his accolades. And I say, OK, that little light might be the thing that can actually bring us together.

01:50:34:20: MADARAKA: The first time I met him I felt he was trying to much to protect his father’s past, or was trying to correct it, as he would say sometimes. But I would imagine it’s really difficult to try to do that. The overwhelming image that people have about his father is negative. So I’ve tried to tell him just to try and stay away from the past and try and focus on the present and the future. And I think he is managing to do that. So, it’s not easy but I think he is trying to do that.

01:51:25:01: JAFFAR: So when I see the quiet dignity of my friend Madaraka Nyerere, and the warmth towards me and the acceptance, it is simply me being able to say I can live my life out of the shadow of my father.

01:52:26:13: JAFFAR: It’s a kind of miracle if you think about it. We being here, being real friends. Me seeing him as a brother. That’s a miracle by the way.

01:52:44:04: JAFFAR: Let’s just get to Uhuru Peak. We will.

01:52:51:25: BECKET: Ooh la la, ooh la la, ooh, still climbing.

01:53:11:25: BECKET: Still OK?

01:53:12:25: JAFFAR: Yeah.

01:53:18:05: JAFFAR: After all that effort.

01:53:29:24: JAFFAR: Yodel-ay-hee-hoo!

01:53:32:18: JAFFAR: Knock, knock, knock on wood!

01:53:44:16: JAFFAR: Madaraka, thank you for trusting me enough to come. It means something to me.

01:53:49:10: MADARAKA: Thank you for accepting the invitation.
 
01:53:53:05: JAFFAR: And may this brotherhood last forever. You are the brother I never had.

01:53:58:29: MADARAKA: Thanks.

01:54:11:07: UHURU PEAK 5895 meters

01:54:30:06: A FILM BY JAMES BECKET

01:54:36:14: PRODUCED BY JAMES BECKET JIM WHITNEY

01:54:42:00: FEATURING MADARAKA NYERERE JAFFAR REMO AMIN

01:54:47:04: CINEMATOGRAPHY BY JIM WHITNEY

01:54:53:02: WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR CLIMBING TEAM PHILLIP ‘YAHOO’ WILLIAMS INNOCENT THADEI MOSHA HAMISI OMARI MRUMBI LUDOWICK JOSEPH

01:55:01:29: WRITTEN BY ROBERT J LITZ

01:55:07:07: EDITED BY AMY ROSNER

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