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Located in the Wilson 2nd Floor West
Video Collection unless otherwise noted. |
Summary |
Afrique, Je te Plumerai =
Africa, I'm Going to Fleece You. San
Francisco,
CA : California Newsreel, [1992] |
DT572 .A35 1992 |
A compelling and sardonic essay
on the history of colonialism in Cameroon, and by extension, on the African
continent. Focuses on historical as well as contemporary European cultural
domination, particularly in the publishing and media industry. |
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Allah Tantou, a la grace de
Dieu
= Allah Tantou, God's will be done / Archibald Films. |
DT543.822.A28
A55 1991 |
Through home
movies, old newsreels, letters and fictional reconstruction of imprisonment,
this film examines the life of the filmmaker's father, a diplomat under the
Sekou Toure regime, who later disappeared into the Guinean gulag. Film
reevaluates the turbulent decade of African independence and discusses its
relevance to the new political order on the continent. |
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Biko: Breaking the Silence
/
Edwina Spicer, director; producers, Mark Caplan, Richard Wicksteed. |
DT1949.B55 B54 1987 |
Presents the story of
Stephen Biko, using interviews with other South African anti-apartheid
activists. Parts of the motion picture "Cry Freedom" directed by Richard
Attenborough, based on the novel "Biko" by Donald Woods, are shown along
with interviews of Attenborough and Woods. |
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Frantz Fanon : black
skin, white mask
/ a Normal Films production for BBC and the Arts Council of England in
association with Illuminations ; producer, Mark Nash ; director, Isaac
Julien ; written by Isaac Julien & Mark Nash. |
CT2628.F35
F726 1995 |
A film biography of
Frantz Fanon, theorist of the anti-colonial movements. |
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Cleansing the past ; Rivers of
fear, bridges of trust
/ A production of Common Ground Productions, The Media Peace Centre, Ubuntu
Film and Television. |
DT3337 .C58 1997 |
Examines the results of civil
war and the efforts made toward national reconciliation in Mozambique
(Cleansing the past) and Angola (Rivers of fear). |
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Communication and democracy :
Chicago style on investigative journalism. |
PN4735 .C64
1993 |
1. The
"Chicago style" of investigative journalism (15 min.) -- 2. Ethics in
investigative journalism (20 min.) -- 3. Media wars : marketing the news (18
min.) -- 4. The Nigerian perspective (17 min.) |
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Ken
Saro-Wiwa : an African martyr
/
produced by Nathan Sheppard ; a Millennium Movies Production. |
PR9387.9.S27
Z6 1996 |
"Ken Saro-Wiwa, the
celebrated Ogoni writer and political activist, was hanged in November 1995
by the Nigerian military dictatorship. Saro-Wiwa had been campaigning for
the rights of Nigeria's Ogoni people, who have suffered from decades of
resource exploitation by foreign oil companies and oppression by the
Nigerian military government. This program tells Saro-Wiwa's story through
his own words and those of his wife and features the only in-depth interview
he gave before his death."--Container. |
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Lumumba, la
mort du prophète = Lumumba, the death of the prophet
/ une
production Velvet Film GmbH, Berlin, Cinémamma GmbH, Zurich en association
avec La SEPT ... [et al.] ; un film de Raoul Peck ; produit par Raoul Peck,
Andreas Honegger, Frank Hoffer. |
DT658.2.L85 L85
1992 |
Reexamines the
independence struggle in the Belgian Congo and its leader, Patrice Lumumba.
This multi-award-winning film recounts Lumumba's tragic 200 day rule
culminating with his assassination. Combines archival documentary footage of
Lumumba with the memories of journalists who reported from the Congo. |
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Rwanda, a quest for
justice
; Burundi, reconciliation radio / a production of Common Ground Productions,
The Media Peace Centre, Ubuntu Film and Television. |
DT353 .R88
1997 |
Part of a series
profiling formal efforts by various Sub-Saharan African countries to
peacefully resolve contemporary conflicts. The first film follows the
efforts of the International Tribunal for Rwanda to bring the perpetrators
of the genocide to justice, an arduous, complicated process which has not
gone smoothly. The second film examines Rwanda and Burundi where hate radio
has been used to incite ethnic violence. But now in Burundi, radio is also
being utilized as a means of building understanding and promoting
reconciliation. |
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Sankara
/ director, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda ; South Productions for Channel Four in
association with RTVE (Spain) and SBS (Australia) |
DT555.83.S26 S35 1991 |
"An imaginative profile of the
former President of Burkina Faso. Sankara emerged as an idealist in a
generation of young people concerned with material wealth. Ideals intact, he
took power in a military coup, and died in another engineered by fellow
officers" -- distributor's catalog. |
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The survival age
/ produced by Mark Newman & Robyn Hofmeyer for Phakathi Films & SABC. |
DT14 .L58
1995 v. 2 |
Tanzania is facing
serious environmental and social problems that have been brought about by
careless development. The economists featured are critical of Western ideas
about progress. The film reflects on the failure of both socialism and
capitalism in this country and explains the need to overcome the legacy of
colonialism. |
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Winning ways
: how southern Africa averted famine 1992
/ UNICEF production ; written, produced and directed by Gareth Jones. |
HV625.A36 W56
1993 |
"Twenty-million
people inhabit southern Africa. They survived when long-term drought
conditions persisted in the 1990s. How did the people and governments of
this area prevent tragedy?"--Container. |