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  1. Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2004)

    Subject
    Music; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 182 minutes), £24.99

    Lee Hirsch’s film AMANDIA! took nine years to make and tells the story of black South African freedom music, revealing the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid and how song was used...

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  2. Africa I Remember (1995 Video)

    Director
    Paul Balmer
    Producer
    Paul Balmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), £50

    Nigerian-English musician and composer Tunda Jegede spans the African and western music traditions in ‘The Cycle Recokoning’, the world’s first full-scale work for African harp lute (kora) and western...

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  3. Simba (1928 Video)

    aka: Simba, The King of Beasts

    Director
    Martin Johnson; Osa Johnson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). b&w. 83 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

    Record of a 15,000 trek through Africa by the husband-and-wife adventurers Martin and Osa Johnson, portraying the wildlife and tribal villages of the Samburu, Boran, Turkanak, Meru, Kikuyu, Dorobo, Nandi and...

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  4. Bajourou: Music of Mali (1995 Video)

    Director
    Jeremy Marre
    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Geography; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at ‘bajourou’, a musical style unique to Mali, which has the richest and most sophisticated musical heritage in all Africa. It developed out of the musical traditions of the Jalis, the hereditary...

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  5. Youssou N’Dour - Live (2003)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 65 minutes), £19.99

    A recording of the 1994 tour of West Africa by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour, with additional footage of N’Dour’s headlining performance at Fiesta des Suds. His band, Super Etoile, founded in 1979,...

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  6. Tunisian Victory (1943 Video)

    aka: Why we Fight - Tunisian Victory

    Producer
    Roy Boulting; Frank Capra; Hugh Stewart
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), £15.99

    Official British war film. Covers period from 8th November 1942 to May 1943 - the invasion of North Africa to the fall of Tunis. In 1942 the Allies launched the largest amphibious assault of the war thus far...

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  7. Under the Baobob / Making the ‘Peace Song’ (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Two films from a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. 1: For generations the ancient baobab tree stood at the heart of the Makuleke community, bringing shelter, nourishment and a...

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  8. Spirit Here Today, A (1994 Video)

    Director
    Gei Zantzinger
    Producer
    Gei Zantzinger
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 1996 sale: US$160.00 (+p&p)

    A memoir of Chopi life before and after the civil war and drought in Mozambique, juxtaposing scenes of Zantzinger’s visit in 1973 with what was left of the Chopi way of life 20 years later, as many Chopi...

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  9. Under African Skies (5 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Mark Kidel; Michael Macintyre; Michael Raeburn; Richard Taylor
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £225.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Series looking at the diverse music of Africa: where it comes from, what it means and where it is going. 1 (producer Michael Raeburn): Among all English-speaking African countries, the music of Zimbabwe has...

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  10. IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

    aka: House of Life, The

    Director
    David Byrne
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

    An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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