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Examines some of Kenya’s economic and ecological problems: cash crops which deprive local people of food, short-sighted agricultural policies which leave the earth impoverished and development schemes...
Looks at the organisation and meaning of a Maasai woman’s fertility rite, and the conflict which arose at this particular ceremony with the men of the Maasai village (on the Loita Hills near the...
Looks closely at three different communities examining the way in which African peoples mastered the problems of creating a way of life in a varied and often hostile environment. Looks in particular at two...
Describes the studies of the American anthropologist Shirley Strum who, over a period of six years, observed a troop of baboons who live in Gilgil in the Rift Valley of Kenya. The ‘Pumphouse Gang’ is...
Describes a rural development project in Kenya, based on self-reliance, which illustrates the interrelationships between health care, agricultural improvement and the application of appropriate technology.
In 1973 and 1974, David and Judith MacDougall spent 14 months observing and filming the Turkana people of East Africa. This part of their film trilogy is an inquiry into the Turkana view of marriage through...
The Turkana are a group of semi-nomadic pastoralists who inhabit a harsh environment of dry thorn country in north-western Kenya. The film focuses upon a Turkana elder who serves not only as the subject of a...
Looks at the contrasts in Kenya between the tourist image and the impoverished lives of the country’s inhabitants. A wealthy minority own much of the countryside and grow cash crops to sell to the...
Twenty years ago some of the more arid regions of Kenya were populated by elephants and other wild animals. Now, because of an evergrowing human population, these poor agricultural lands have to be...
Some 15,000 Rendille live in settlements and camps dotted in a 10,000-square mile expanse of desert and scrub bush in northern Kenya. Camels are the source of their subsistence and focus of their culture....
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