Ouanga, also advertised as The Love Wanga, is a voodoo-themed 1936 American film starring Fredi Washington. George Terwilliger wrote and directed the film. The film's themes include miscegenation and it features various racial stereotypes and portrays the people who practice voodoo as primitive. The movie is considered to be perhaps the second zombie film ever made after White Zombie.
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Fredericka Carolyn "Fredi" Washington was an American stage and film actress, civil rights activist, performer, and writer. Washington was of African American descent. She was one of the first Black Americans to gain recognition for film and stage work in the 1920s and 1930s.
Washington in Imitation of Life, 1934
Louise Beavers and Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life (1934)
Washington (left) at the opening of the Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem (April 14, 1936)