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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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Nigeria All Smiles on Royal Tour

Date released

6 Feb 1956

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2602

NoS ID

046380

Story no

8 / 8

Queen and Duke attend Divine Service. Her Majesty presents colours to Second Battalion, Nigeria Regiment. Her Majesty visits orthopaedic hospital. Governor General gives garden party in Her Majesty’s...

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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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COMMONWEALTH COAL

Date released

May 1961

Series name

Mining Review 14th Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

346130

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: a special issue dealing with training in the coal indistry made as a contribution to Commonwealth Technical Training Week. Commonwealth students avail themselves of the coal board’s training...

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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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Catamarans

Filmed

May 1973

Series name

London Line

Issue no

1

NoS ID

350715

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: This is a special London Line to Nigeria and for Nigeria only. Under United Nations auspices, a British engineer has developed a fishing catamaran that can be used on the open sea like a...

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Roving Camera Reports: Nigerian Recruit

Date released

15 Feb 1943

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

951

NoS ID

063430

Story no

4 / 9

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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John Major on Nigerian Commonwealth suspension (1995)

Genre

Press conference

Prime Minister John Major speaks at a press conference in New Zealand following Nigeria’s suspension from the Commonwealth due to human rights violations and the recent execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and others.

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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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