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Actor and Humanitarian Activist – Forest Whitaker
In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
Zeinab Badawi speaks to humanitarian activist and one of Hollywood’s best known and versatile actors, Forest Whitaker. One role for which he won numerous accolades including an Oscar for best actor was his portrayal of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. But how far is he concerned that his portrayal of Idi Amin played into racist stereotypes of Africans and their continent?
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Mon 8 May 2017
19:06GMT
91Èȱ¬ World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
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