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Sankofa: Tradition and Development (1980 Film)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Reports on the Brong-Ahafo Rural Integrated Development Programme (BARIDEP) in central Ghana showing how people, drawing on their own resources and traditions, work together with both governmental and...

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Step by Step: Cemis Ghana (1997 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 14 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Shows how communities can be enabled to improve their living environment with the help of a community-based environmental management information system (CEMIS). Looks at the experience of the community...

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Damirifa Due! (Video)

aka: Saying Goodbye

Director

Rosemary Dei-Boateng

Producer

Rosemary Dei-Boateng

Subject

Anthropology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Celebrates the Asante funeral tradition. Recorded in Ghana and the UK.

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Formidable Foe, A (1998 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the history and symptoms of malaria and visits Prampram Health Centre in Ghana to look at the work of a research team fighting this disease, which kills approximately two million children each year,...

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Glass Beadmaking in Turkey and Ghana (2006)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 45 minutes), £14.99

Documentary. This DVD shows two traditional methods of glass beadmaking and shows in detail how beautiful handcrafted beads are produced. In Turkey, glass beads are made in a furnace and the technique is...

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Spilling the Beans (1999 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min., 2001 sale: £12.00 (inc VAT +p&p)

A video-based resource pack examining issues of Fair Trade through the case study of cocoa farmers in Ghana. Des Coleman meets the people who rely on Fair Trade for their livelihoods. Supporting teacher’s...

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African Election, An (2010)

Director

Jarreth Merz

Subject

Development studies; Geography; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £9.99

For three months documentary filmmakers Jarreth Merz and Kevin Merz followed Nana Akufo-Addo of the right-leaning NNP party and Atta Mills of the left wing NDC party as they went round Ghana, making speeches...

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Given a Voice...: Poor Urban Children in Accra (1996 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 12 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Looks at poor urban children in Accra, Ghana. In the fast-growing cities of Africa such as Accra, more and more children are living on the strets. Poor and neglected, and living under unhealthy and even...

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Ghana’s Roosting Bird (2007)

Director

Miriam Rowe; Gemma Gander

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies; Economics; Geography

A short film looking at what Ghanaian farmer’s have to battle with. Despite plentiful fields, cheap imports and a lack of support from the Ghanaian government means that farmers cannot easily supply their...

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Asante Market Women (1982 Video)

Director

Claudia Milne

Distribution

Sale (Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A study of Asante society filmed chiefly in the central market of Kumasi, Ghana. It is a matrilineal society, where wealth passes not to a man’s sons but to his sister’s children. In the home women are...

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