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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...
The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Music videos feature in articles by...
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...
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...
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...
Shows the construction of an iyálu dundun by a Nigerian craftsman from selection of a tree, carving and hollowing of the log to the preparation of goat skins for the drum head. The finished drum is then...
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,...
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...
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...
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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