Film about Che Guevara's translator planned

According to today's BBC World Service web site, South African antropologist Katrin Hansing is planning to film a documentary about Cuban revolutionary figure Che Guevara's Congolese translator, Freddy Ilanga.

Ilanga was a rebel who in his later years became a brain-surgeon.

The film was beset with the worst production possible, Ilanga's death!

Ilanga became intrigued with Guevara because he was angry over the way white colonialsts had treated African blacks.

Ilanga later moved to Cuba, and became a brain surgeon. He had not returned to the Congo until a few years ago. Despite Ilanga's death, Hansing plans to finish the film.

An Argentianian-Brazilian feature film, entitled "Motorcycle Diaries," about Che Guevara's travels through his own native South America was an acclaimed film which was also released here in the USA last year. 

Correction: Ilanga did not actually go to the Congo, but he was planning to when he died. He did, however, reestablish contact with relatives there through the Internet.

Second correction: The music I was listening at the time of this entry was by Ali Farka Toure. He is from Mali, which is actually not close to Senegal!