Original title: Un lieu nommé Wahala

English title: A Place Called Wahala

Running time: 55:32 min.

Year of manufacture: 2021

Produced by Jürgen Ellinghaus, Kida Studios

Country: Germany, Togo, France

Director: Jürgen Ellinghaus

The Wahala / Chra War Cemetery Memorial in Togo (West Africa) hosts every year on November 11 Remembrance Day in memory of the First World War and the African colonial soldiers who died here in August 1914. But the history of Wahala and its name point to another painful past. In 1903, the German colonial administration established a "correctional settlement" near the Chra River, where people considered to be an obstacle to the colonial order had to live. Wahala / Chra: a place where the voice of antiquity resonates with contemporary images.