Drama

Bakanja: a life without compromise

Name: Bakanja: a life without compromise
Director: Bokakala Nkolobise
Genre: Drama
Released: 1989-01-01
Duration: 88 min
Cast: Atande, Bolakofo, Bolembo, Jos Calsius, Henk DeKuyper

January 1, 1989

1h 28m

Presents a dramatization of the life and death of Isidore Bakanja who was born in the Belgian Congo around 1885. He was converted to Christianity by Catholic missionaries but later was persecuted by an athiest employer who treated him mercilessly because he refused to remove his scapular.