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During the colonial period in the 1920s, European interest in collecting African art stimulated a transnational trade between Africa and the West. What has become a multi-million dollar trade lies largely in...
The victory of Emperor Menilek of Ethiopia over the Italians in the Battle of Adwa in 1896 was a major event in the history of Africa. As a result Ethiopia survived the nineteenth century European scramble...
Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, the film examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market hungry for new tribal...
Examines the traditional methods used to produced printed fabrics in Africa, and traces the cultural, historical and symbolic influences on the regions where the production of hand-dyed and printed textiles...
COI synopsis: Examples of music, art, dancing and sculpture in preparation for the African Arts Festival 1975.
BFI synopsis: Copper embossing by Mrs Densem.
BFI synopsis: Bulawayo youth week; an art exhibition; float procession and the installation of a new Lady Mayor.
Recent research claims that man originated in southern and central Africa, not the Middle East. This film records the early history of the strange and primitive people there - the nomadic Bushmen, whose...
BFI synopsis: Nereo de Gennis, the Italian artist, in Cholo Church in Nyasaland. He has been in Nyasaland for two years. Much of his work can be seen in churches in Nyasaland.
COI synopsis: Bidding at Sotheby’s auction rooms for Eastern and African Art.
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