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  1. Living with Drought (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

    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...

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  2. Jean Rouch - Premier Film 1947-1991 (1991)

    Director
    Dominique DuBosc
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 27 minutes), $145.00

    The director, Dominique Dubosc gives Jean Rouch the opportunity to improvise a new commentary for his first film made in 1947, In the Land of the Black Magi (Au pays des mages noirs) of a Songhay possession...

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  3. Wodaabe, The (1988 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (film - RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (video - RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Wodabee follow their herds across the borders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon in search of pasture. The droughts that have ravaged the Sahel since the late 1960s have devastated Wodaabe cattle...

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  4. Deep Hearts (1980 Film)

    Director
    Robert Fulton; Robert Gardner
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Bororo Fulani of the Niger Republic in Africa. The film was made during the few weeks that they gather in large numbers to celebrate their pride in themselves as an independent people. They hold a series...

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  5. Tchirozerine-Tuareg (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at the trials and hardships being faced by desert nomads in Niger and their efforts to deal with agricultural problems after years of drought. The first section of the film looks at a hard hit nomad...

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