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Jean Lydall has been making films with the Hamar community of southern Ethiopia since the 1970s. In 2001 she returned with her daughter to follow the continuing life story of Duka. Candid interviews reveal...
The Mursi are an unadministered tribe living in a remote corner of Ethiopia and practising a remarkable form of democracy. A tribe without chiefs or leaders, they reach their political decisions in formal...
Follows a draught-induced migration of the Mursi people from their traditional territory in the Omo valley of Ethiopia to the Mago valley, about 50 miles away. This migration has brought them into contact...
The Omo palaeontological strata in the Rift Valley, north of Lake Rudolf, Ethiopia, have become the strata of reference for the pliocene and pleistocene periods in Africa. The thickness of the sedimentary...
This is Leslie Woodhead’s fifth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985, made at the same time as THE LAND IS BAD. The nitha is an ‘age set ceremony’ of the Mursi...
An African perspective on the reasons why people in Africa still face a food crisis nine years after the Ethiopian famine started to dominate headlines. Looks at long-term solutions for the continent’s...
Relates the experiences of nine young people who have had to leave their own countries through fear of persecution. They have come from Turkey, Somalia, Bolivia and Ethiopia.
Parts of China’s Loess Plateau, the highland area spanning some 640,000 square km in the north of the country, faced environmental ruin as over-farming took its toll on the ecosystem. In this film...
A study of the 500 Kwegu and 5000-strong Mursi, two tribes in south-east Ethiopia whose ways of life have become totally interdependent. Depicts the almost feudal relationship between the tribes, whereby...
Part 1 uses archival newsreel footage and interviews to trace the history of Ethiopia from 1896, when the Ethiopian army defeated the Italians, to the post-war setting up of the Organisation for African...
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