The language obscures the stories of people who may be teachers, traders, clerical workers, their lives thrown into conflict, who, after battling across the continent to find a better life, find themselves in this unfortunate place.
The audience is an unusual collection of cineastes - students, teachers, traders, writers, lawyers, engineers, daily wage workers.
In order to capture work types that are peculiar to the African setting, more specific search terms (agriculture, 'agricultural workers', 'bank workers', chiefs, 'civil servants', executive, factory, 'factory workers', farmers, 'health workers', industry, 'industrial workers', laborer, labourer, lecturers, market, plantation, teachers, traders, tradesmen, trading) were also added.
Mr. Lubanga, who held a degree in psychology and once worked as a teacher and trader, went on to lead a rebel group in the Ituri region, where the local press reported that he asked every family to contribute a cow, money or a child to his militia.
After an early career as a math teacher and trader, Ye brilliantly invested in property in Shenzhen when the now-booming southern city was more agricultural than urban.
Islam came to the archipelago around the 12th century, and was spread largely by teachers and traders.
Urban wage earners, bureaucrats, clerks and peons in government service, teachers, landlords, traders and stallholders and petty manufacturers were all victims.
Of the lower classes, much less is known, although there are inscriptions attesting to the existence of guilds (collegia) of boat skippers, doctors, teachers and traders, as well as to the existence of a trade in slaves.
"Some of the traders could not find the money, and some did not want to join in a complicated thing when it was not clear it would work," said Mir Agha, a former teacher and salt trader for 10 years, who heads the collective that eventually formed.
The experience has given Mr. Stone, a onetime high school coach, college teacher, Wall Street trader and high-stakes poker player, a new perspective on independent cinema: "Besides the fact that you get really old and really broke really fast, people tend to talk about these films as one person's film or two people's film, and that person is often one of the least important people.
