The pilot film "Hopes on the Horizon : the rise of the New Africa" was produced by Blackside, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts USA and Multimedia Africa Project in Accra, Ghana. This pilot was completed in 1998 and released for limited circulation to educators in 1999...stories told here offer examples of the emergence of democracy in modern Africa.
The pilot covers issues in Ghana, South Africa: the women's anti-pass campaign 1952-1956, and Eritrea : the emergence of democracy out of a thirty-year war for independence, 1962-1995.