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In the 1960s gynaecologists Reg and Catherine Hamlin left Sydney for a three-year contract in Addis Ababa that turned into a lifetime’s commitment. Shows the hospital they build and meets some of the 14,00...
Amina Ahmed Abdullah is a trained midwife working in the huge Hatashiek refugee camp in the Somali region of Ethiopia, where infibulation (the most extreme form of female genital mutilation) is widely...
Two films from a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. 1: During Eritrea’s 30-year war with Ethiopia, women fought alongside men as equal partners on the front lines. Today, they...
For over a decade the Granada Television DISAPPEARING WORLD team followed the lives of the Mursi, an Ethiopian agro-pastoral people. While the Mursi way of life is tecnologically underdeveloped and may...
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...
Examines the way television news and documentaries covered the Ethiopian famine of 1984-5, using a ‘Heart of the Matter’ documentary by David Jessel to examine the usefulness of food aid and the question...
An investigation into the global coffee trade, illustrating how poor farmers in Third World countries are being left penniless as their richer First World counterparts continue to pay them far less than they...
The Hamar people are an isolated people living in the dry scrubland of south-western Ethiopia. These programmes concentrate on the proud and outspoken Hamar women. 1 (1990): A young widow, an unmarried girl...
During the 1970s and 1980s the recurrence of famine in rural areas of Africa resulted in many hundreds of thousands of deaths, notably in the Sahel, in Ethiopia and in Mozambique. Well publicised famine...
Compiilation of the three series of television programmes in which Bruce Parry goes to live with some of the world’s oldest indigenous people in the most remote parts of the planet, shedding the trappings...
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