ERITREA - A NATION IN ISOLATION 1080p
Channel: Afshin Rattansi Videos
Date: 2012-10-26

We get exclusive access to the most isolated country in Africa, which has been victorious in recent wars against not one but two superpowers. We visit the key historical sites of a nation with a 1,200 km Red Sea coastline across from Yemen and Saudi Arabia. We travel and talk to stakeholders about massive infrastructural investment in a nation, currently the subject of UN Sanctions. Eritrea has defied Western neoliberal economic, political and cultural agendas and our cameras record the self-sufficiency experiment that has made Eritrea one of the fastest -- if not the fastest -- growing economy on the planet.
We examine the complex issues that are at stake for Eritrea in its battle against U.S. hegemony -- from its diverse religious heritage, the rebuilding of its health, education and  urban/rural infrastructure to its cautious implementation of foreign investment strategy.