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Compares daily work of two women in Abijan. Albertine, the mother of a family, lives in Adjamés neighbourhood. Her work consists of preparing and selling ‘achéké' (manioc semolina). Her rather...
About a dry-season homestead among the Jie, the semi-nomadic people in North-eastern Uganda. At the time the film was made there was a famine, and their view of the reasons for this and possible solutions...
Follows a group of Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains, at the foot of Tahat, the highest mountain in Algeria. Details, after some introductory descriptive material about Tuareg social life, the...
Shows the everyday life of the cheetah, including the hunt of its preferred prey, the Thompson’s gazelle, on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. A study of the chase, demonstrating the use of the tail as a...
A description of three of the Christian sects of the Shona and Ndebele immigrants from Southern Rhodesia, who came to live in Zambia between 1957 and 1964. It examines their position in 1969, the effects of...
Recent research claims that man originated in southern and central Africa, not the Middle East. This film records the early history of the strange and primitive people there - the nomadic Bushmen, whose...
Made by five black South African members of the Pan Africanist Congress, showing the situation of apartheid in South Africa as experienced by black Africans.
Shows a small band of G/wi people in their desert environment as they engage in a variety of daily activities: making music, dancing, gathering roots and wild melons, setting a snare for a duiker, butchering...
A medicine man may go into a trance without the stimulus of dancing to treat someone who urgently needs his attention. /Ti!kay treats Sha//gai, a young pregnant woman who is about to have a miscarriage. Made...
Five-year-old Debe refuses to let his mother, Di!ai, go gathering without him. It will be a hot, exhausting day and Di!ai would prefer to leave Debe with his half-sister, N!ai. Debe has been looking forward...
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