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Shows the work of the Amsha Appropriate Technology Project in Tanzania in promoting rural self-reliance and enabling villagers to improve their environment. Projects shown include making new houses for...
Learning on Screen’s Gateway includes over 1,950 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please...
President Julius Nyerere explains how the emphasis is on rural development, which must take priority over urban growth, and that the elite must make sacrifices. Co-operative villages are shown, where...
Report on the health service in Tanzania where conventional systems have been rejected for a less costly reliance on medical aides and village health workers, rather than fully trained doctors.
Looks at the organisation and meaning of a Maasai woman’s fertility rite, and the conflict which arose at this particular ceremony with the men of the Maasai village (on the Loita Hills near the...
A video-based teaching pack looking at the issue of street children in Singida, Tanzania. Ralf Little meets children living on the streets and introduces the work of the Kititimo Centre, to explore some of...
Shows the building of a railroad from the coast at Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania to Lusaka in Zambia. Presents the political and economic case for the railroad illustrating the engineering problems faced and...
In Tanzania, witch doctors are spreading a belief that the body parts of albino people will bring wealth and good fortune. Referred to as ‘White Ghosts’ and ‘Devils’ within their communities, the...
Male circumcision is the centre of a ritual which marks a stage in the male life cycle. Concerns an Islamic group in Tanzania and shows a part of the typical pattern of these rites - separation from the old,...
Video podcast from the Oxford Internet Institute. Padrig Carmody analyses the phenomenal recent growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa. Based on over two hundred firm level interviews in...
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