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Till Death Do Us Part (1998 Video)

Director

Ihria Enakimio; Sandra Obiago

Producer

Ihria Enakimio; Sandra Obiago

Subject

Development studies; Social welfare; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

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Benin Kingship Ritual (1964 Film)

Director

R E Bradbury; Francis Speed

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 20 minutes), £50.00

The rulers of Benin in Nigeria, the Oba, traditionally spend much of their time performing rituals designed to enhance their own power and the prosperity of their subjects. This film record of the rituals...

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Hausa Village (1949 Film)

Director

Jean Duff

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Although the commentary is occasionally misleading, this study of the Hausa of Nigeria gives a vivid impression of village life a generation ago, showing agricultural and fishing activities, hut building and...

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Preferred Sex, The: The Desired Number (1995 Video)

Director

Manjira Datta; Ngozi Onwurah

Producer

Daniel Riesenfeld

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Looks at issues of reproductive health and the status of women in the developing world, with stories of Nigerian women, who are honoured for producing a large number of children, and Indian women, among whom...

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Kings and Cities (1983 Video)

Director

Mike Csaky; Andrew Harries; John Percival; Christopher Ralling

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Focusses on the city of Kano in northern Nigeria and seeks to explore links between past and present in the context of political structures, historical sequences and spatial relationships.

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Building Forms in a Tropical Area: Nigeria (1984 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 2 x 25 min.; 2 x 24 slides. col.

Part 2: The influences of the built form in Nigeria from within West Africa, from the rest of the continent, and from outside Africa: the bungalow, Muslem architecture, South American Baroque, the European...

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Nollywood Babylon (2010)

Director

Ben Addelman; Samir Mallal

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 74 minutes), $ Canadian 59.95

Nigeria’s film industry, Nollywood, is the third largest in the world—an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa....

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Were Ni!: He is a Madman (1963 Film)

Director

Raymond Prince; Francis Speed

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An ethnopsychiatric film of the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Western Nigeria. Among the Yoruba, psychiatric disorder is widespread and a set of institutions has been developed to deal...

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Oba Kaso (1975 Video)

Subject

Dance; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 28 min., 2000 sale: US$189.00 (+p&p)

Excerpts from the National Theatre of Nigeria’s production of ‘Oba Koso’ a Yoruba folklore drama about a wicked man who tries to overthrow the king. Features intricate dance steps, brilliantly coloured...

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Gelede: A Yoruba Masquerade (1969 Film)

Director

Francis Speed

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A study of the Gelede ritual which is found in Western Nigeria and amongst the Yoruba in Dahomey. The purpose of this ceremony is to propitiate the great mother and assure the placation of women with...

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