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Uses clandestinely filmed footage to show the devastaion wrought upon the Nigerian Ogoni people by the exploitation of petroleum deposits by multinational companies. Filmed before the murder of Ken Saro Wiwa...
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...
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in conversation with Somali writer Nuruddin Farah. They discuss Achebe’s sense of identity - African and Nigerian, the question of language in a multicultural society,...
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...
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.
Part 1 (1980): Leading members of the Presbyterian Church in Calabar discuss their search for identity as a Nigerian Church, in terms of liturgy and music, mission, commercial ventures, pastoral care, etc....
Shows the construction of an iyálu dundun by a Nigerian craftsman from selection of a tree, carving and hollowing of the log to the preparation of goat skins for the drum head. The finished drum is then...
With the conquest by the British of the city states of Benin in 1897, the bronzes used in many of the ceremonies designed to honor the Oba (the divine ruler) were released onto the art market and now fetch...
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...
The little village of Soku, hidden in the heart of the Eastern Niger Delta, has a group of heroes headed by Fenibaso, and its creeks and rivers are controlled by the water-spirit Duminea. The film shows some...
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