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  1. Manuscripts of Timbuktu, The (2012)

    Director
    Zola Maseko
    Producer
    David Max Brown
    Subject
    Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 52 minutes), $195.00

    A film on how the legendary Timbuktu became one of the world’s leading scholarly and trading centres during the 12 - 15th centuries. It dispels the myth that Africa had no science or written culture before...

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  2. Mugabe’s Zimbabwe (2012)

    Director
    Shrenik Rao
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 54 minutes), £12.99

    This documentary by Indian filmmaker Shrenik Rao traces the political career of Robert Mugabe, from fighter for independence and president of a free Zimbabwe to despotic leader of a country bankrupt,...

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  3. Across the World with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson (2012)

    Producer
    James Leo Meehan; Osa Johnson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 mins.), $14.95

    As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, Osa and Martin Johnson describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the...

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  4. Visions of Africa: Colonial Cinema I. Films from Central Africa, 1940s - 1960s (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 56 minutes), £28.00 (individual rate)

    Collection of films mostly made by government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, during the 1940s, 19550s, and 1960s. Contents include the following films: Mary’s Lucky Day (Lux toilet soap commercial); The Box...

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  5. South African Propaganda Films of the Apartheid Era: Selection IV (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), £28.00 (individual rate)

    During the apartheid era, the South African Information Service launched a campaign of propaganda and disinformation aimed at the Western powers, which it considered its natural allies against what it called...

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  6. When China Met Africa (2011)

    Director
    Marc Francis; Nick Francis
    Producer
    Miriana Bojic Walter
    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £14.99

    Marc Francis’ documentary film explores the expanding footprint of China’s rising global power; in particular how the historic meeting of fifty African heads of state in Beijing, affected the lives of...

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  7. Zimbabwe’s Child Exodus (2011)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social welfare

    Report by Zimbabwean journalist Stanley Kwenda into the exodus over the past decade of tens of thousands of Zimbabwean children across the border into South Africa. Kwenda himself fled Zimbabwe in 2010 when...

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  8. African Journey with David Dimbleby (2010)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2 x 60 minutes), £195.00 each part or £438.75 the set

    Africa is the most culturally and ethnically diverse continent on the planet. But the peoples of Africa are widely regarded as victims of hunger, disease, poverty and conflict and the vast continent in which...

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  9. Banking the Unbanked (2010)

    Director
    Sarah Vos
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $390.00

    Ever since microfinance entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, microfinance projects have played a growing role in international development. For executives like Reliance Financial CEO...

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  10. 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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