Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu June 2005

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Media Collections:
Africa, South of the Sahara

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

2 dollars with or without a condom

"Ethiopia has become to the Arab world what Thailand is to European tourists. Prostitution in Ethiopia has increased incredibily in recent years. In one section of Addis Ababa, some 130,000 girls support themselves by selling their bodies. Most of them are under eighteen, and many even under fourteen. In this probing documentary we meet the victims, girls that have been orphaned, or thrown out by their families, or are hoping to find a better life. They are compelled to turn to prostitution to survive. The young ones don't even earn enough money to buy food. The older ones earn more but yearn to work the luxury hotels as high class prostitutes. Virtually all the girls are HIV positive. Condoms are seldom used, even though they are distributed free in many places. Customers, believing the youngest girls are HIV-free, seek them out, which in turn keeps lowering the age of girls becoming HIV infected.".

1 videocassette (40 min.) : 1996

MEDIA 2-3854

The 2nd African/American summit "coming home"

Cecil Banks, a lawyer from Iowa, participates in the African/African-American Summit in Libreville, Gabon. Other participants include Cecily Tyson, Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, and Coretta Scott King. Summit participants work to improve economic, social, cultural and business relationships between Africa and the United States.

1 videocassette (56 min.) : 1994

DANA 720

Africa come back the popular music of West Africa

The final program in a seven-part series. Looks at the popular music scene in Ghana today and explores the diversity of African popular music.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1984

MEDIA 2-2558

Africa dreaming four short films on love from Namibia, Mozambique, Senegal, Tunisia

Sophia's homecoming / directed by Richard Pakleppa ; produced by Bridget Pickering -- Sabriya / written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako ; produced by Dora Bouchoucha Fourati -- So be it / written, directed and produced by Joseph Gai Ramaka -- The gaze of the stars / directed by João Ribeiro ; produced by Pedro PimentaSophia's homecoming: (Namibia) "...a woman who has worked as a domestic for 12 years in the city comes home to her husband, children, and sister and to a terrible discovery. She realizes that the ruptures caused by apartheid can never be repaired."--Container. Gaze of the stars: (Mozambique) "...a story about machismo...so powerful that it drives away whatever it loves by trying to control it."--Container. So be it: (Senegal) "...based on a play by Wole Soyinka, [and] follows the destruction of a well intentioned foregin doctor confronting primal fear, rage and powerlessness in a remote Senegalese village and in himself."--Container. Sabriyah: (Tunisia) "...shows how a modern, free-spirited woman disrupts the exquisitely patterned mosaic of male Maghrebi society as represented by two Tunisian chess fanatics."--Container.

1 videocassette (104 min.) : 1997

MEDIA 2-5285

Africa in the 21st century: 1: Somalia the neglected civil war

Independent since 1960, Somalia has seen virtually constant political upheaval. Some eighty percent of the nation is under the power of guerillas and local warlords. Recently, Somalia has become a target in the post-Afghanistan "war against terrorism.".

1 videocassette (49 min.) 2002?

MEDIA 2-6522

Africa in the 21st century: 2: Mali & Senegal the power of Islam

Islam has influenced West Africa since the 11th century, but only in the last 100 years has the religion grown so rapidly in Senegal and Mali. One prominent sect, the Murid movement, has millions of followers and wealth accumulated from peanut cultivation. As a force of conservative Islam, its economic and political power must be watched by the West.

1 videocassette (49 min.) 2002?

MEDIA 2-6523

Africa in the 21st century: 3: Zimbabwe & South Africa still far from coexistence

Zimbabwe still reels from the after effects of independence. Former colonials are blamed for failing to work out compensation and land reallocation, and violence against whites is on the increase. South Africa emerged from the evils of Apartheid more than a decade ago, and today faces an expanding gap between the rich and poor, increasing interracial conflict, a rising crime rate, and an AIDS epidemic that is decimating the mostly black population.

1 videocassette (49 min.) 2002?

MEDIA 2-6524

African story magic

Join Kwaku, an African-American boy living in a tough inner city neighborhood, on his voyage through the doorway of imagination to visit the magic Africa of his ancestors.

1 videocassette (27 min.) : 1992

DANA 1012

Afrique, je te plumerai Africa, I'm going to fleece you

Examines how Cameroon's French colonizers have been replaced by a dictatorial indigenous regime which still plunders the land and silences the authentic expression of its people.

1 videocassette (ca. 89 min.) : 1992

DANA 382

Ambush in Mogadishu

Explores the peacekeeping mission gone wrong and the deadly ambush that still haunts the U.S. military and American foreign policy.

1 videocassette (90 min.) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5825

Angano- angano- nouvelles de Madagascar = Angano- angano- : tales from Madagascar

1 videocassette (63 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in 1989

DANA 407

The Art of living

Travel to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon people of Mali to witness the ways they celebrate life and death with acts of beauty and grace.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1992

MEDIA 2-1714

Asylum

Upon her father insisting that she undergo a circumcision and then marry an old man, a young woman escapes Ghana for the United States.

1 videocassette (20 min.) 2003

MEDIA 2-6541

Atlantico negro na rota dos Orixás = Black Atlantic : on the Orixás route

"The waters of the Atlantic brought the slaves from Africa to Brazil, their bodies in chains but their souls still tied to mother Africa. This Brazilian-made film takes us to both shores, to how spiritual life, dance and song came with the captive people and took root in the new soil. Among the many traditions were the language and gods of Yoruba and Jejes from the Republic of Benin. Today, when Brazilians revisit Africa, they teach the Africans the culture that these descendants of slaves keep alive in Brazil. The documentary is a testimony to some of the ironies of the diaspora"--Container.

1 videocassette (55 min.) : 2001?

MEDIA 2-5572

Baka people of the forest

Journey deep into an African rain forest for a rare and intimate look at the lives of the Baka, a semi-nomadic people who have wandered Central Africa for centuries. To the outside world they are simply known as Pygmies, but in their natural environment they are the uncontested masters.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1990

MEDIA 2-983

Becoming a woman in Okrika

Documents an extraordinary coming of age ritual in a village in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, suggesting the conflict Third World women face between traditions and the values of the modern world. The rite, called Iria, consists of elaborately painting the young women's bodies with beautiful designs ; subjecting their bodies to public scrutiny by the elder women ; methodically fattening them ; and teaching them the responsibilities of womanhood. After an elaborate celebration, they run a race pursued by young men and their leader, representing a mythological personage who is armed with sticks. By passing through this rite, the women let go of girlish fantasies and prepare for childbearing.

1 videocassette (27 min.) : 1990

DANA. MEDIA 946 2-3853

Bitter melons

Portrays the difficulty of survival in the central Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, in a zone where game is scarce because waterholes are dry most of the year.

1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) 1991

MEDIA 2-6616

Chef! Chief. La tête dans les nuages = Head in the clouds

Chef!: The filmmaker locates the roots of Africa's authoritarian regimes in the patriarchal family, reinforced by traditional kingship and the colonial experience. He made a visit to his ancestral village, Bandjoun, in the Ghomala speaking region of Western Cameroon, where he planned to film dances dedicating a monument to King Kamga Joseph II, the filmmakers' great grand uncle, but the ceremony soon turned into a celebration of one-man rule, in particular Cameroonian President Paul Biya's. La tête dans les nuages: Teno investigates the ties between unaccountable government and an unproductive economy. The government controlled formal sector, like its colonial predecessor, is essentially parasitical. An informal sector has emerged parallel to it which increasingly supplies the daily subsistence needs of the people.

1 videocassette (96 min.) : 1999

MEDIA 2-5274

Child brides

This program travels to the most rural and poverty-stricken regions of Ethiopia to expose the common practice of child brides and the consequences for the young girls who often give birth before they are out of childhood.

1 videocassette (51 min.) : 1998

MEDIA 2-5099

Chronicle of a savanna marriage : a film

A unique view of the life and culture of the Masai people in Africa. Follows the life of a young woman in the Masai culture of southern Kenya. Considers puberty rites as well as female circumcision and polygamy.

1 videocassette (56 min.) : 1997

MEDIA 2-3911

Community-based environmental management information system CEMIS : improving living environments/initiatives by communities

Community-based environmental management information system: With 12 million inhabitants, Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world. The population explosion is immense, with 350,000 newcomers yearly. CEMIS was started in 1994 to enable communities to improve their environmental infrastructure using information created by the community itself. Step by step: La is an indigenous coastal community in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Families in the community traditionally lived off the sea. The community is facing drastic changes as more and more people are crowded into a limited area. Local residents founded La Mansaamo Kpee, a community-based organization and were chosen to do a pilot project for CEMIS. Cities in common: With more than half of the world's population living in cities, it's important to understand consumption patterns. This program examines the impact of urban sprawl on water, transport, energy, and waste, and offers solutions. Malindi : Mji safi: Malindi is a thriving center of African/Arab/Swahili culture in Kenya famous for a relaxed pace, friendly people, monumental Muslim architecture, and delicious food. Tourism is now the main source of income for the majority of people in Malindi. Pollution has impacted on the beaches and water supply, and waste disposal is a problem. Government officials and residents joined forces in a workshop iniated by GreenTowns, a joint project between the Kenyan and Dutch governments. The objective is to increase awareness of the environment and to enhance community participation.

1 videocassette (57 min.) : 1996

MEDIA 2-5158

Crossroads

"The location is a crossing of roads leading from Uganda into Tanzania and from Kenya via Rwanda to Zaire. Some years ago, Mama Shillingi started her "hotelli" at the crossroads. She offered food and shelter to truck drivers. Until, in 1994, thousands of dead bodies came floating down the nearby Kagera river. Shortly thereafter, the refugees came across the border. Within a few days, half a million people had settled there. Around a hamlet of four houses, a boom town arose called Benaco"--Container.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1997

MEDIA 2-3709

Crossroads/South Africa the struggle continues

Shows the shantytown named Crossroads in South Africa, which illegally houses 20,000 Black residents who resist the oppressive white South African government.

1 videocassette (50 min.) : 1980

MEDIA D-139

Cry, the beloved country

The story of two fathers living in South Africa, a black minister and a white farmer, whose lives are bound together by mutual tragedy.

1 videocassette (106 min.) : 1995?

DANA 1032

The curse of Congo a story of wealth, exploitation, and ruin

Shows the bleak prospects of the Congolese population, caught between opposing armies, disease and malnutrition, and exploited by the greed of others for their nation's valuable natural resources.

1 videocassette (57 min.) : 2002

MEDIA DANA 2-5859 9

Dakan Destiny

Dakan is the first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa. It also is a contemporary African reinterpretation of the age-old Romeo and Juliet conflict between love and social convention.

1 videocassette (87 min.) : 1997

DANA. MEDIA 1294 2-3730

Dark passages

Employs a mixture of interviews, slave narratives, and dramatization. Tells the story of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade.

1 videocassette (50 min.) : 1995

DANA 1831

Les derniers colons The last colonials

Visits with the last of the white population living in Zaire. They are managers, missionaries, businessmen and land owners who have chosen to settle in the heart of Africa, and who remain there in spite of the violence and danger. They reminisce on the "good old days of the colonial era" and reveal shattered dreams in a country they thought might have been the new El Dorado.

1 videocassette (ca. 61 min.) : 1995

DANA 673

The desired number

Investigates the condition of women in Nigeria, where a woman's status and value are tied to her ability to bear children of the desired number.

1 videocassette (28 min.) : 1995

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3876 2-6095

Destination Cameroon

"In 1962, the first Peace Corps Volunteers went to Cameroon to work with host country counterparts in the areas of agriculture and education. Since then, Volunteer project areas have expanded to include work in agriculture, health care, community and small business development, agroforestry, health and nutrition"--Container.

1 videocassette (20 min.) : 1993

DANA. MEDIA 621 2-3016

The dream becomes a reality nation building and the continued struggle of the women of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front

Interviews with women who were treated as equals during the struggle for Eritrean independence about their current employment and social conditions. Most have continued to work in their professions or vocations although the traditional cultural forces make full sexual equality impossible.

1 videocassette (48 min.) : 1995

MEDIA 2-3719

The Drums of Dagbon ; Caribbean crucible

Parts five and six of a seven-part series. The first program discusses the Dagbamba drummers in northern Ghana. The second program traces the complex ties that bind the music of coastal Africa to the music of Europe.

1 videocassette (115 min.) : 1984

MEDIA 2-2557

Duka's dilemma a visit to Hamar, Southern Ethiopia

Duka is married, the mother of five young children and living in Hamar, Southern Ethiopia. Since her husband married a beautiful, young, second wife, Duka has been in a state of emotional turmoil. Personal and intimate, the film follows this family in crisis.

1 videocassette (87 min.) 2001

MEDIA 2-6429

An Ecology of mind

Visit the Gabra of northern Kenya, whose unique relationship to their harsh environment is the key to their survival; the Makuna of Colombia, whose complex myths and rituals reveal for us a sophisticated ecological awareness; and a modern gardener who resists the Western world's control of nature with a new attitude about sowing Earth's garden.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1992

MEDIA 2-1713

Ethiopia

Using contemporaneous newsreels and press reports and interviews with historians and eyewitness survivors traces the history of Ethiopian independence and national sovereignty beginning with the defeat of Italian colonial domination in 1896. Also examines Ethiopia's role in advancing anti-colonialism and the struggles for independence throughout Africa.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1987

MEDIA 2-3127

Everyone's child

In a rural village in Zimbabwe, Tamari and Itai are devastated following the tragic death from AIDS of both their parents. For the children this is a time of fear and survival as family and neighbors turn their heads. The social climate in the city is just as hostile as it is in the village. In the end it is only tragedy that can bridge the gulf of denial between their two worlds and make the community realize that these are everyone's children.

1 videocassette (83 min.) : 1996

MEDIA 2-3617

The farmers of Gaho

Over generations the farmers of the village of Gaho in southern Ethiopia have developed unique farming techniques that enable them successfully to grow crops in their arid environment.

1 videocassette (21 min.) 1998

MEDIA 2-6476

Femmes aux yeux ouverts Women with open eyes

L'Excision = Female circumcision -- Les mariages forcés = Forced marriages -- Le siad = AIDS -- La Lutte = The struggle -- La Survie = Survival -- L'Economie = the economy -- Le Politique = PoliticsProfiles contemporary African women in four West African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin. We meet a woman active in the movement against female genital mutilation, a health care worker educating women about sexually transmitted diseases, and businesswomen who describe how they have set up an association to share expertise and provide mutual assistance.

1 videocassette (52 min.) : 1993

MEDIA 2-3298

Femmes du Niger entre integrisme et democratie = Women of Niger : between fundamentalism and democracy

Focuses on the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on women's rights in Niger and how this clashes with the country's struggle for democracy.

1 videocassette (26 min.) : 1993

MEDIA 2-3880

Flame

One of the most controversial films ever produced in Africa (seized by the police during editing), this feature film not only exposes past abuses but continuing divisions within Zimbabwean society, especially against women and peasants. It is the story of two close friends, Florence and Nyasha as they train and fight as soldiers in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, but after liberation find their lives little changed.

1 videorecording (85 min.) : 1996

DANA. MEDIA 1295 2-3299

A future for the past

Under the Omani sultans, Zanzibar became a major trading center for slaves and ivory. History lives on in its exotic architecture. Stonetown was a major point where Arab, Indian, Persian, and European influences merged with the indigenous African traditions, giving Zanzibar its unique Swahili character. The rich architectural heritage is now in danger of being lost. The government is working with Habitat to update the infrastructure of Stonetown to meet present and future population needs.

1 videocassette (9 min.) : 199

MEDIA 2-5160

Future remembrance phototgraphy and image arts in Ghana

Documentary about the role of photography, photographers and the art of image making in Ghana. Meet the photographers, sculptors and painters who tell us in their own words about the economic, social, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual motivations of their work.

1 videocassette (55 min.) : 1998

MEDIA 2-3869

Generations of resistance

Uses archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by Black South Africans for economic viability and individual freedom.

1 videocassette (52 min.) 2001

MEDIA 2-6494

Genesis and development of [the] African National Congress (A.N.C.) of South Africa

Discusses slavery as an institution, and traces the development of the African slave trade.

1 videocassette (30 min.) : 1985

DANA 119

Ghana's independence and its contribution to African unity and world peace

Discusses Ghana's struggle for independence.

1 videocassette (30 min.) : 1985

DANA 120

Goldwidows women in Lesotho

Interviews with women in Lesotho, a small country surrounded by South Africa. The women live as virtual widows; most of their husbands work in South African gold mines.

1 videocassette (52 min.) : 1991

MEDIA 2-3827

Griottes of the Sahel female keepers of the Songhay oral tradition in Niger

Narration of the importance of Griottes (women storytellers) to the social aspects of oral tradition in Niger.

1 videocassette (12 min.) : 1991

MEDIA 2-5343

The Hadza

An ethnographic film about an East African hunting and gathering tribe. The Hadza obtain their food from the wild produce of the land. Documents their way of life before resettlement.

1 videocassette (40 min.) : 198

MEDIA 2-1945

Hartseer land My beloved country

Discusses the views of the extreme right in South Africa. These Afrikaners believe that God chose them as the superior race of Africa. They would like to establish a separate white state.

1 videocassette (50 min.) : 1991

MEDIA 2-2280

Have you seen DRUM recently?

Social documentary of South African life in the fifties and the impact of apartheid on the lives of black Africans. Rare footage from Drum magazine archives brings to life the music, dance and shebeen philosophy of that period.

1 videocassette. (75 min.) : 1993

MEDIA 2-3075

Hopes on the horizon

Chronicles the rise of pro-democracy movements in six African countries during the 1990s:Benin: a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy -- Nigeria: a human rights movement challenges the military -- Rwanda: Historians build a platform for dialogue -- Morocco: Women's rights activists reform the traditional religious family code -- Mozambique: Agricultural cooperatives advocate economic reform and land rights -- South Africa: A township unites to promote quality education1 videocassette (115 min) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5374

I have a problem, Madam

A fascinating glimpse into a society where women are only now beginning to be heard in a traditionally male culture. Run by female lawyers, FIDA-Uganda has set up several legal aid centers for women in domestic trouble. With the help of a weekly radio show, the centers fill daily with women waiting to tell their stories. FIDA lawyers attempt to reconcile the women and their men in face to face meetings, even if it means traveling to isolated villages. The attitudes of both men and women are beginning to change, but this slow process sometimes leads to conflicts between offical and traditional law.

1 videocassette (59 min.) : 1995

MEDIA 2-3837

In a time of violence

This is the story of Bongani and Mpho, two young ANC "comrades" and lovers from Soweto. Bongani is the sole witness to a train massacre by Duma, a militant with the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party. Since Bongani was recognized, the couple is forced to take refuge in his uncle's apartment in Johannesburg.

1 videocassette (50 min.) : 1994

MEDIA 2-2968, 2-2970

In the name of God

"This film takes us to the Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), one of the few places giving medical care to victims of infibulation. Here, recovered patients are even trained to assist doctors in repairing the damages to other women.".

1 videocassette (29 min.) : 199

MEDIA 2-3879

Ipi ntombi an African dance celebration

Updated version of a musical originally produced in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1974. The story, centering on a South African miner who feels separated from his tribal roots, draws upon both traditional and contemporary African sources for its music and choreography.

1 videocassette (99 min.) : 1997

MEDIA 2-3559

The Italian Ethiopian war Africa in world affairs

"This program focuses on Benito Mussolini's Italy, his dreams of an empire and his costly invasion of Ethiopia, one of the chief episodes paving the way for World War II."--Container.

1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) : 199

MEDIA 2-4136

Karmen Gei

Karmen escapes prison through her lesbian relationship with the warden. She then wrecks the marriage and career of a police corporal by making him her lover and co-conspirator in a smuggling ring. She abandons the corporal who, in a fit of jealous rage, stabs her. Contains much singing and dancing.

1 videocassette (83 min.) 2002

DANA. MEDIA 1976 2-6434

Katowice a programme about the UNCHS (Habitat) Project on sustainable cities in the industrial heartland of the Upper Silesia, Poland ; A tale of four cities : a documentary about the Sustainable Cities Programme

A tale of four cities: The Sustainable Dar-Es-Salaam Project -- The Sustainable Chennai Project -- The Sustainable Katowice Project -- The Sustainable Shenyang ProjectKatowice: Children born into industrial centers of the world are confronted by environmental hazards. With participatory planning, it's possible to improve the industrial environments of the world. Focuses on the Upper Silesia region in Poland. A tale of four cities: Explores the daily consequences of a deteriorating urban environment. Examines how environmental degradation obstructs a city's contribution to development. Focuses on four cities that are very diverse and different from each other.

1 videocassette (57 min.) : 1993-1998

MEDIA 2-5135

Ken Saro-Wiwa an African martyr

"Ken Saro-Wiwa, the celebrated Ogoni writer and political activist, was hanged in November 1995 by the Nigerian military dictatorship. Saro-Wiwa had been campaigning for the rights of Nigeria's Ogoni people, who have suffered from decades of resource exploitation by foreign oil companies and oppression by the Nigerian military government. This program tells Saro-Wiwa's story through his own words and those of his wife and features the only in-depth interview he gave before his death"--Container.

1 videocassette (23 min.) : 1996

MEDIA 2-3684

Kenya

Uses early newsreels, missionary films, and interviews with Kenyan activists to trace the history of Kenya's opposition to white rule beginning with the arrival of the first European settlers in the 19th century. Focuses on the Mau-Mau rebellion of the early 1950s and the key roles played by the Kikuyu people and their leader Jomo Kenyatta.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : 1987

MEDIA 2-3128

Kenya the Masai homeland

Explores the vast national parks of Samburu and Masai Mara, the indigeous people who inhabit them and their diverse wildlife. Visit Mt. Kenya (Kilimanjaro), Nairobi, coastal resorts along the Indian Ocean, the Chalbi Desert, Turkana Lake and Rift Valley. Also studied are the lives and traditions of the main ethnic groups and remaining tribes of Kenya.

1 videocassette (25 min.) : 1998

MEDIA 2-5124

Kumekucha From sunup

Examines the roles of women, who are the pillars of their families, in the culture of rural Tanzania, as they struggle to feed, clothe, and house themselves and their children.

1 videocassette (28 min.) : 1987

MEDIA 2-5031

Kuxa kanema la naissance du cinema = Kuxa kanema : the birth of cinema

Discusses the history of Mozambique's National Institute of Cinema's weekly newsreel entitled Kuxa kanema. Shows the relationship between the films and President Samora Machel and FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front). The original filmmakers discuss their work as a testimonial to the country, its struggles and wars.

1 videocassette (52 min.) 2003

MEDIA 2-6745

Last grave at Dimbaza

Photographed clandestinely and smuggled out of South Africa, the film looks at life under apartheid in white-ruled South Africa focusing on the inequities in housing, education, wages, and health care to which Blacks and the officially designated "Coloured" people are subjected.

1 videocassette (55 min.) : 198

MEDIA 2-1769

The last warrior man of the men

This segment profiles the warriors of the White Nile. Highlights their culture, customs and traditions.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : MEDIA 2-5818

The last warriors day of the donga

This segment looks at the Mursi of Ehtiopia who are still among the fiercest warriors in Africa.

1 videocassette (54 min.) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5821

The last warriors searching for mingi

This segment looks at Ethiopia's closely allied Hamar and Karo who share many practices that help to sustain their traditional lifestyles.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5819

The last warriors stealing beauty

This segment looks at the Wodaabe and Tuareg who have a common enemy in the arid lands of central western Africa they call home.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5820

Liberia America's stepchild

From Haitian slave revolts and the American Colonization Society to the 1997 election of Charles Taylor to the presidency and his corrupt administration, this program looks at events leading up the founding of Liberia and its history up through the twentieth century.

1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) 2002

DANA 116

The Lights of Luanda

Reconstruction and reconciliation: The political process -- Sheltering returning refugees -- Providing basic services -- Rebuilding public institutions -- Revitalising the economy -- Retraining and reconciliation -- Possibilities of peaceLights of Luanda deals with a country (Angola) ravaged by over 20 years of civil war and conflict. Street children are a problem, and factories, churches, and schools lie abandoned. Despite great natural wealth (oil fields and diamond mines), Angola's economy is in ruins. Reconstruction and reconciliation: Examines the devastation caused by world wars and political conflict, including the traumatic effect of war on the individuals left behind. Shows the complexity of post-war disaster management, and shows how Habitat can help in this area.

1 videocassette (48 min.) : 1999

MEDIA 2-5131

Lines in the dust

Discusses revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, where gender roles are challenged and illiterate adults are educated.

1 videocassette (28 min.) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5923

Listen to the silence a film about African cross rhythms as seen through Ghanian music

Drawing from the sounds and rhythms of nature and of daily tasks, Ghanian music values the silences as well as the beats, using silences for cross-rhythms both in traditional music on local instruments and in highlife on modern-day instruments. Shown are children's music, formal and informal dance, and music from a funeral; shown are Ewe, Ashanti, Ga, and Frafra peoples.

1 videocassette (ca. 33 min.) : 1996

MEDIA 2-5199

Long night's journey into day

Follows four cases over a two-year period that were brought before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigates the crimes of apartheid, by bringing together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. In so doing South Africa is showing the rest of the world that even the most bitter conflicts can be addressed through honesty and communication, providing the most definitive record of one of the most ambitious and innovative attempts at social reconciliation without precedent in human history.

1 videocassette (95 min.) : 2000

MEDIA 2-5338

The long walk of Nelson Mandela

An in-depth film biography of Nelson Mandela, who is credited with the reversal of apartheid in South Africa and its peaceful transformation to democrary.

1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.) : 1999

DANA 1688

Lumumba

Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served, for less than a year, as the first elected prime minister until he was brutally assassinated.

1 videocassette (115 min.) : 2000

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5699 2-5699

Lumumba la mort du prophète : un film

Meditation on the tragic events of Patrice Lumumba's twelve month rise and fall as Zaire's first and only popularly elected prime minister.

1 videocassette (ca. 70 min.) : 1992

DANA 370

A luta continua The struggle continues

Presents historical background on Portuguese colonialism and Africa. Focuses on how Frente de Libertação de Moçambique provides health, education, and social services to people living in the liberated areas.

1 reel, 32 min. : 1973

MEDIA MEDIA 5-302 D-134

Maids and madams

Examines the plight of Black female domestics in South Africa. Interviews Black maids and the white "madams" who employ them, showing the maids performing their daily tasks.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : 1985

MEDIA 2-6019

Mama Awethu!

"Follows the day to day lives of five black South African women in the townships around Cape Town, revealing the inhuman legacy of the apartheid system"--Container.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : 1993

MEDIA 2-3836

Mammy Water in search of the water spirits in Nigeria

The film features Mammy Water rituals and interviews with devotees and their leaders. Mammy Water is a water deity worshiped in Nigeria.

1 videocassette (59 min.) : 1989

MEDIA 2-3624

The man who drove with Mandela

"In the early Sixties, Nelson Mandela traveled incognito across South Africa, organizing armed rebellion against the apartheid regime....[H]e was dressed as the chauffeur for an elegant, impeccably dressed white man. That man was Cecil Williams -- a leading Johannesburg theater director, a committed freedom fighter...and a gay man....The Man Who Drove with Mandela blends dramatized accounts of key incidents in Williams' life with archival footage, home movies, and contemporary interviews"--Container.

1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.) : 1999

MEDIA 2-5373

Mandela and de Klerk

A portrayal of Nelson Mandela, co-founder of the African National Congress, and his 30-year odyssey from imprisonment to the presidency of South Africa.

1 videocassette (114 min.) : 1997

DANA 1052

Mandela the man and his country

Chronicles the life of Nelson Mandela against the backdrop of continental and South African politics.

1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) : 1990

DANA 1054

Mapantsula

Panic is a petty criminal imprisoned with South African Anti-Apartheid activists who feel contempt toward his lifestyle. While in jail, Panic is transformed into a man willing to become involved with social change.

1 videocassette (104 min.) : 1990?

DANA 373

Maragoli

"In 1976, the world's population reached 4 billion. It is expected to double in 30 years. 80% of this increase will occur in the so-called less developed countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. To try to understand why, a population study was organized by the Institute of Development Studies, England. One place chosen for study was Maragoli in Western Kenya. Maragoli is one of the world's most densely populated rural areas with an average of 2,000 people per square mile."--Opening credits.

1 videocassette (58 min.) : 1976

MEDIA 2-2424

Masai manhood

An ethnographic view of Masai culture and society, focusing on the preparation of young Masai boys for manhood and leadership in their society. Follows the seven years of transition in which the boys serve as warriors and learn about survival and the outside world, as dictated by their elders.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : 1991

MEDIA 2-3892

Masai women

An ethnographic view of Masai culture and society, focusing on the preparation of young Masai girls for marriage and life in their society. Probes, through a candid interview with an older woman, the feelings of the Masai women about polygamy and their inability to own property.

1 videocassette (52 min.) : 1981

MEDIA 2-3893

Metamo

A woman, with almost everything working against her, fights the odds and emerges as Judge of the High Court.

1 videocassette (90 min.) : 1997

MEDIA 2-5749

A Migrant's heart

An English actor who's parents came from India and then migrated to East Africa and finally England returns to visit New Delhi, India, to seek his roots, and to work through ethnic identity problems which can result when one is caught between two worlds.

1 videocassette (27 min.) : 1996

MEDIA 2-5759

Missing out

This program follows two traditional birth attendants as they try to persuade women to take iron folate supplements and visit hospitals. It also looks at what could happen when donors pull out of distribution programs.

1 videocassette (28 min.) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5920

Monday's girls

A tribal chieftain's daughter who has lived in a large city for some time agrees to return to her native village for traditional pre-marital ceremonies, called the Iria, involving body painting, public breast examination and five-weeks' confinement to "fattening rooms." Her refusal to fully participate in the ritual sparks a crisis underlining the conflict between traditional and modern African lifestyles.

1 videocassette (49 min.) : 1994

MEDIA 2-3381

Mortu nega Those whom death refused

"In 1973, independence was proclaimed [in Guinea Bissau], ending five centuries of Portuguese colonization and a decade of armed struggle. [This film], Gomes' first feature-length film, made in 1987, ... portrays this critical period in history through the story of one woman, Diminga, whose husband is fighting on the front lines. The camera captures Cabral's assassination, the ending of hostilities, and the reconstruction of the economically and spiritually devastated country. The term "Mortu Nega" means those that death did not want, and Gomes films a ceremony using 3000 extras, in which survivors call upon the dead, asking them how they can go on living in such terrible conditions"--From the Le Monde Cannes '96 Supplement, May 10.

1 videocassette (93 min.) : 1988

DANA. MEDIA 1386 2-5164

Moving on the hunger for land in Zimbabwe

Documents the history of the independence movement in Zimbabwe through art prints, vintage documents and photographs, posters, and archival film footage. Shows the continuing disparity between Black farmers, who barely make a living on their inferior land, and affluent whites, who employ modern agricultural techniques on their lush acres.

1 videocassette (52 min.) : 1982

MEDIA D-167

My mother built this house

Government programs are building houses for these homeless, but it is a slow process. This program looks at the difference the South African Homeless People's Federation is making.

1 videocassette (28 min.) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5911

N!ai the story of a !Kung woman

A compilation of footage of the !Kung people of Namibia from 1951 through 1978. Focuses on the changes in the life of these people as seen through the reflections of one woman, N!ai.

1 videocassette (59 min.) : 1980

DANA. MEDIA 304 2-1638

N/um tchai the ceremonial dance of the !Kung Bushmen

Documents a formalized Bushman curing ceremony in the Kalahari Desert area of Southwest Africa by showing an all-night "medicine dance" in which a number of men go into trance and exercise special curing powers. Divided into two parts: the first reviews and explains typical dance scenes; the second shows the ceremony without subtitles or narration.

1 videocassette (20 min.) : 1973

MEDIA 2-1639

Nagstappie A walk in the night

Recounts a single terrible night in South Africa when the fragile world of Mikey Adonis, a young coloured steel worker, disintegrates; illustrates how a decent man can be driven to an act of brutality by a racist society which humiliates him at every turn.

1 videocassette (79 min.) : 1998?

DANA 1300

Naked spaces living is round

Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries, including Senegal, Mauritania, Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso and Benin.

1 videocassette (137min.) : 1985

MEDIA 2-3092

Newport jazz '90

Hey Jim -- We be jammin' -- Whirlybird -- Madagascar -- Carnavalito -- On Green Dolphin Street -- Basie's bag -- Island birdie -- Oye como va - Bemba colora -- SplankyThe seventh glorious year of the best jazz presented by JVC at Newport, R.I.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1990

JAZZ 149

Nigerian art kindred spirits

Where does the vitality of Nigerian art come from, tradition or modernism? Who are the artists and what are they telling us? What is the role of art in Nigerian culture? This program answers these and other questions through interviews with Nigerian artists, and provides historical background on Nigerian art.

1 videocassette (58 min.) : 1996

DANA 736

No homes without peace, no peace without homes ; Our land in trust: a program about the Community Land Trust Project in Tanzania/Bondeni

No homes without peace, no peace without homes: Genocide led to the slaughter of over half a million people in Rwanda. They are commemorated in massacre sites that can be found throughout the countryside. This program examines the problems of women living in conflict zones. Our land in trust: Examines the Community Land Trust Project in Tanzania/Bondeni in Voi, Kenya. Communal land ownership was the norm prior to colonization. Major changes are taking place. Land registration/ownership has led to new problems.

1 videocassette (35 min.) : 1997?

MEDIA 2-5127

No place to hide United Nations Peacekeeping : a personal view by Sir Brian Urquhart

This program presents the history of the UN's successful and sometimes controversial peacekeeping efforts by analyzing the most recent operations in Bosnia and Somalia, and addressing the question of the future of such operations. The progam features rare archival footage and examines current operations and crises through the voices of the peacekeepers, diplomats, and journalists involved in them.

1 videocassette (50 min.) : 1996

MEDIA 2-3427

Nyamakuta, the one who receives an African midwife

Mai Mafuta is a nyamukuta--a traditional midwife in Zimbabwe. Half of all births in the developing world are attended by women like her, without the help of modern medicine. People seek her out because she is skillful, compassionate, and because her grandmother was also a midwife.

1 videocassette (34 min.) : 1989

MEDIA 2-1247

O testamento do Senhor. Napumoceno Napumoceno's will

The film is an epic farce from one of the world's least known but most culturally complex societies - Cape Verde. This classic tale of the hollowness at the core of provincial bourgeois life introduces English speaking audiences to Germano Almeida, one of the outstanding writers in Portuguesee today. With its novelistic breadth, the film offers a bildungsroman of a man and a society so caught up in the pursuit of conventional success and prestige it overlooks its true self almost until it is too late.

1 videocassette (110 min.) : 1998

MEDIA 2-5163

Oba koso Nigerian music and dance drama, 1969

"Excerpts from the Yoruba folklore drama about a wicked man who tries to overthrow the king. Includes intricate dance steps,brilliantly colored costumes, and Yoruba instruments and singing"--Container.

1 videocassette (28 min.) : 1975

MUSIC 419

One small step

The oldest human footprints in the world were unearthed near Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Also discussed are the famous "Lucy" skeleton, Ethiopian fossils, and the controversy over the nature of ancient upright creatures.

1 videocassette (55 min.) : 1989

MEDIA 2-2194

Our friends at the bank

Filmed over a period of 14 months, documents the negotiations between the World Bank and Uganda in an attempt to understand and describe the relationship and its implications for Uganda. Describes the activities of James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, and Yoweri Museveni, leader of Uganda.

1 videocassette (90 min.) : 1997

MEDIA 2-3693

Out of Africa

The story of Karen Blixen, her philandering husband, her struggles with a coffee plantation in Kenya, and her ill-fated love for a mysterious white hunter.

1 videocassette (161 min.) : 1986

MEDIA 2-630

Paradise precarious a programme about the small island state of Mauritius

Paradise precarious: Progress in paradise -- Protecting paradiseParadise precarious deals with the implications of colonization on the island state of Mauritius. The presumption of paradise still affects how small island states are perceived. It's presumed that life in island communities is idyllic, while reefs and lagoons on the island are being destroyed, seventy percent of the forests have been cut down, and making a livelihood is becoming increasingly difficult for fishermen. Waste not, want not: The teeming streets of their cities reflect the phenomenal rate of urbanization in the developing countries of Asia. Urbanization is both a symptom and a cause of other dramatic transformations that these countries are experiencing. Cities are the driving force of modernization. Seeing is believing: As the world's population increases, the search for cultivatable land forces people to put themselves at greater and greater risk. Some settle wherever they can, including in the shadow of an active volcano. Natural disasters typically harm poor people in poor countries. Cities in developing countries are unable to provide the basic infrastructure for a healthy and hazard-free environment. A Habitat headquarters in Nairobi, a new tool is being developed to cope with disaster relief and city planning. A livelihood from waste: Examines the rapid expansion of Nairobi, the largest city in East Africa. The city is divided into different areas, which puts stress on basic services, such as collection of waste. Only about thirty percent of waste can be collected, and people in poorer neighborhoods often find it dumped near their homes. People have found that one man's garbage is another's income.

1 videocassette (94 min.) : 1994

MEDIA 2-5144

Participation in progress the Community Participation Training Programme in Zambia ; On the slopes of Kilimanjaro : the Sustainable Moshi Programme

Examines programs designed to help develop and train people in Zambia and Tanzania. Focuses on efforts to develop regions and to improve existing conditions.

1 videocassette (35 min.) : 1993-1999

MEDIA 2-5132

Passing girl; riverside an essay on camera work

A young American ethnolographic researcher in Ghana discusses issues raised by filming, the ways he uses his subjects and the ways they use him as well.

1 videocassette (30 min.) : 1997

MEDIA 2-3903

Paying the price

This program examines the history of AIDS treatment in Africa. It details Uganda's success with a UN-sponsored program of price reduction and medical education, and South Africa's refusal to begin a national AIDS treatment program. It also looks at the success of smaller local programs that are bringing hope for the future to many infected Africans.

1 videocassette (28 min.) : 2001

MEDIA 2-5924

A Peace Corps mosaic

Cassette 1. Destination: Sri Lanka -- Destination: Honduras -- Destination: Poland -- Destination: Lethos -- Destination: Kyrgyzstan -- cassette 2. Destination: Cameroon - Destination: Lithuania -- Destination: Nepal -- Destination: Paraguay -- Destination: SenegalA visit to each destination includes interviews with Peace Corps volunteers and local people. Promotes the study of geography and demonstrates the value of volunteer service to diverse cultures.

2 videocassettes (200 min.) : 1996

DANA. DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 612 cassette 1 612 cassette 2 2-3013 cassette 1 2-3014 cassette 2

Poor urban children in Accra Growing smart : Nairobi's street children

Poor urban children in Accra looks at the problem of children living in poverty in Accra, Ghana. Many children in Accra lack basic rights such as protection and education. Growing smart examines Nairobi, one of African's fastest growing cities. It also is one of the first cities to have street children. The number is estimated to be about 40,000.

1 videocassette (38 min.) : 1997?

MEDIA 2-5125

Portrait of an African artist Elimo Njau, the antelope-man

Conversation with East African artist Elimo Njau on the state of contemporary African art; a tour of the Paa ya Paa Gallery in Nairobi and the sculpture, painting, and ceramics which illustrate his thesis that Africans, though materially poor, are spiritually rich.

1 videocassette (21 min.) : 1989

MEDIA 2-3379

Quartier Mozart

Uses traditional Cameroonian folk beliefs to explore the sexual politics of an urban neighborhood. Queen of the Hood is a proud young girl who doesn't want to be taken advantage of by men. She befriends a local sorcercess who helps her enter the body of a young stud, My Guy.

1 videocassette (81 min.) : 1992

DANA. MEDIA 860 2-3618

The Rise of nationalism ; The Legacy

Program 7 charts the major struggles for African independence in Ghana, Kenya, Algeria, and the Belgian Congo. Program 8 looks at Africa in the aftermath of colonial rule, as the continent seeks ways to come to terms with its diverse inheritance.

1 videocassette (114) : 1984

MEDIA 2-384

The River Niger

Story of a ghetto family torn apart by a revolution, but held together through misfortune. Examines what might happen, and how people will react, when the tension of city life turns to violent revolution.

1 videocassette (VHS) (104 min.) : 1988

DANA 61

Rostov-Luanda

Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don and there became friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the director' s search for a friend of the past. In this personal retrospective, Sissako encounters present-day Angola and traces the great lines of Africa's recent history.

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : 1997

DANA 1385

Rouch in reverse

French ethnologist/filmmaker, Jean Rouch discusses his work with Manthia Diawara. Includes a cross-section of Rouch's work with clips from his documentary Les Maitres Fous, his cinema verite classic, Chronique D'ete, and his pioneering masterpiece Moi, Un Noir (Treichville). Throughout the interview Diawara places Rouch's films in the context of the on-going struggle of Africans to construct their own vision of modernity.

1 videocassette (51 min.) : 1995

MEDIA 2-3616

Sanders of the river

Commissioner Sanders, an English colonial officer in the Nigerian River country, thwarts the warlike plans of the old chief Mofalaba with the help of Chief Bosambo.

2 film reels (95 min.) : 1982?

MEDIA. MEDIA MEDIA 5-545 reel 1 5-546 reel 2 2-1234

Sango Malo

A young teacher, Sango Malo, comes to a rural village with ideas of promoting rural development through practical education; he clashes with the established headmaster, who insists on a traditional French-style education. Malo alienates many of his supporters through his impatience and is arrested by the army on the behalf of the village chief, storeowner and priest. But he has taught well and the the villagers carry on his ideas without him.

1 videocassette (94 min.) : 1991

MEDIA 2-5270

Search for the first human

Examines the implications of Orrorin tugenensis, a group of six million year-old fossils found in the Tugen Hills of Kenya, which may shed light on the origins of humankind.

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : 2002

DANA 1785

Side by side women against AIDS in Zimbabwe

In the fight against AIDS, Zimbabwean women stand side by side mobilizing communities, educating people, and empowering women. This film follows a social worker and a theater director/magazine editor as each uses her skills to overcome the effects of AIDS.

1 videocassette (47 min.) : 1993

MEDIA 2-3645

Sidet forced exile

Presents the stories of three Ethiopian women who each sought refuge in the Sudan. Tells how they have managed to survive displacement and creat lives for themselves in exile.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1991

MEDIA 2-3877

The silent killer AIDS in South Africa

Patients, social workers, medical experts and government policy makers speak out on the HIV epidemic which is infecting more than 1500 people per day in South Africa.

1 videocassette (52 min.) : 1999

MEDIA 2-6030

Skin deep, 1960

Examines the fight against legal, institutionalized racism in the United States and South Africa. Chronicles the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the struggle for civil rights in the United States.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1999

MEDIA 2-4182a

Skin deep, 1960

Examines the fight against legal, institutionalized racism in the United States and South Africa. Chronicles the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the struggle for civil rights in the United States.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1999

MEDIA 2-5631

Song of freedom

Robeson portrays a successful concert singer in England who discovers he is the descendant of a West African queen whose tribe is now in need of a leader. He returns to the home of his ancestors; the island of Casanga off the coast of Africa. However, following his arrival conflict erupts over his claim to royalty.

1 videocassette (80 min.) : 1994

DANA 595

Songs of the adventurers

Depicts the poetic songs, known as difela, of Sotho migrant workers, who must go from their homes in Lesotho to work in the mines in the Republic of South Africa.

1 videocassette (47 min.) : 1996?

MEDIA 2-3891

South Africa 1990 the year of change

In February 1990 the new State President Frederik de Klerk swept South Africa's old politics out and began shaping the new South Africa, a process that dazzled the international community and delighted, and sometimes bewildered those at home. This film records those stunning developments. A report of the dramatic events by international camera men and correspondents who covered that news story, a story that's still unfolding today.

1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) : 1990?

MEDIA 2-1555

The Speeches of Nelson Mandela

1 videocassette (70 min.) : 1995

DANA 524

The story of Lucy

In 1974 Don Johanson unearthed Lucy, at almost 3 million years of age, our oldest human ancestor. Lucy's tiny three-and-a-half-foot skeleton set the world of paleoanthropology on its ear. Lucy walked upright and provided evidence that walking upright, not a larger brain, was the key difference between early man and the ape. In this film Johanson recounts his discovery of Lucy as he returns to the site of his find in Ethiopia and expounds upon the important information it still continues to generate.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1994

MEDIA 2-2415

Strange beliefs

Explores the career of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard and his work on witchcraft amongst the Nuer and Azanda tribes in the Sudan.

1 videocassette (52 min.) : 1990

MEDIA 2-2522

Sweet sorghum an ethnographer's daughter remembers life in Hamar, Southern Ethiopia

The intimacy of shared family life and childhood relationships between the Hamar people of Ethiopia and an anthropologist's children is revealed as we also learn about the important role sorghum plays in the Hamar diet.

1 videocassette (32 min.) : 1994

MEDIA 2-3870

Talking stones

Pt. 1.] Celebration -- Stones -- [Pt. 2.Documents the work of sculptors from the Shona tribe in Zimbabwe. Highlights the traditional approach to their subject matter and their desire to produce sculptures that are truly unique to the African experience.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : 1992

MEDIA 2-3378

Tchuma tchato

On the South bank of the Zambezi river, where the borders of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia meet, the first Mozambican experience in community management of natural resources has transformed furtive native hunters into game wardens.

1 videocassette (56 min.) : 1997

MEDIA 2-3954

These hands

Surveys a typical workday in the lives of impoverished women in Tanzania who manually mine gravel used for making concrete for urban building projects.

1 videocassette (45 min.) : 1992

MEDIA 2-2993

Thomas Sankara

Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. This film is a biographical profile of the revolutionary, the improvements he generated in his country and the new socio-political dimension he instituted in Burkina Faso.

1 videocassette (26 min.) : 1991

MEDIA 2-5247

The tribal mind

This film documents the experience of a group of South Africans determine to move their society beyond racial and tribal compartments built by apartheid.

1 videocassette (52 min.) 1994

MEDIA 2-6444

Udju azul di Yonta The blue eyes of Yonta

Uses the device of a young woman's search for the author of a love letter to explore the political and social environment in the former Portuguese overseas province of Portuguese Guinea, now the independent country of Guinea-Bissau.

1 videocassette (92 min.) : 1994

MEDIA 2-3625

Wandering warrior

Masai warrior, Mpeti Ole Surum (Tom Surum) moves to the United States to act as a cultural ambassador for Kenya. He performs in schools and universities across the United States. He also shares what he has learned of America with young Masai in Kenya.

1 videocassette (58 min.) : 1996

MEDIA 2-5320

War in Congo an overview

Presents two stories about the struggle in Congo including the Tutsi genocide in neighboring Rwanda, irreparable damage to Congo's wildlife, and the depradations against native Congolese and Rwandan refugees. Following this, a Catholic priest attempts to help deal with rape and murder in the town of Shabunda.

1 videocassette (40 min.) : 2002

MEDIA DANA 2-5858 8

White mischief

The year is 1940. War is raging in England, but that doesn't faze the wealthy colonists in Kenya. The "Happy Valley" set is far less interested in world affairs than sexual affairs. Not to mention polo, champagne and cross-dressing.

1 videocassette (108 min.) : 1988

MEDIA 2-665

Wild gunman

Wild gunman (20 min.)--Rocketkitkongokit (30 min.)Wild gunman--From the opening loop of repeated exhortations to "shoot" and continuing through a frentic montage of clips from feature films, commercials, documentaries and newsreels the emphasis is on society's eventual self- destruction. Rocketkitkongokit--Stylistic portrayal of the history of the newly established country of Zaire (Congo Democratic Republic). The narrative follows the rise of dictator Joseph Mobutu, the establishment of the German rocket program and internal rebellions with external influences. Ends with a fictional climax.

1 videocassette (50 min.) : 1998?

MEDIA 2-3931

Witchcraft among the Azande

To the Azande of Africa, there is no such thing as bad luck. All misfortune results from witchcraft. This tribe depends on oracles to explain events and predict the future. Enriched by music and ceremonial dancing, this two-part program focuses on the human side of Azande life, the seriousness and sincerity with which individuals meet their needs through the practice of magic.

1 videocassette (53 min.) : 1982

MEDIA 2-5119

Witness to apartheid

Testimonies from subjects as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu, and obscure white business executive, and a young Black social worker are among the voices of anguish heard protesting the injustice of apartheid in South Africa.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1986

MEDIA D-168

Womanhood and circumcision three Maasai women have their say

This documentary sensitively explores the cultural context of female genital-cutting practices among the Maasai.

1 videocassette (30 min.) : 2002

MEDIA 2-6079

Women in shelter development a compilation (9 films) ; From chaos to hope ; Think twice ; Wanathamula

Women in shelter development. Zulia y su gente negra ; "Con la lógica de la vida" ; Women and shelter development (Tanzania) ; Relocalizada ; Migrante de toda una vida ; Microplanning workshop to solve problems & issues (Sri Lanka) ; Access to credit for women ; Insight ; To reconstruct is to reconcileA compilation of 4 videos, the first consisting of nine parts, describing human settlements and the role of women in shaping, changing and improving living conditions of developing countries.

1 videocassette (110 min.) : 1995

MEDIA 2-5128

Women of the Sahel

"In Niger, a country where only 50 thousand of its nearly 9 million inhabitants are salaried workers, the work done in the 'informal sector,' where revenues are very meager, is essential to the survival of thousands of Nigerien families ... Women of the Sahel visits with a number of these women as they make peanut oil, extract salt from earth, and turn gypsum into plaster. The film also introduces the craftswomen who create marvelously decorated pottery, beautifully woven straw mats, and intricate leather work. All this is done in the hope of earning a few dollars per week."--Container.

1 videocassette (52 min.) : 1995

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3704 2-5029

The women's olamal the organisation of a Maasai fertility ceremony

Discusses a fertility ceremony of the Maasai women in Africa.

1 videocassette (110 min.) : 1985

MEDIA 2-3875

Women's rights, women's struggles in South Africa today

Documents the journey of a delegation of 23 people from the United States who travelled to Johannesburg in Cape Town in June of 1999 and met with dozens of organizations working to improve women's lives in the new South Africa.

1 videocassette (ca. 34 min.) : 2000

MEDIA 2-5611

Woubi chéri

Gays and transvestites in the Ivory Coast talk about their lives, social attitudes and their efforts to form an association.

1 videocassette (62 min.) : 1998

MEDIA 2-1617

You have struck a rock!

Examines the situation of women and political repression in South Africa.

1 videocassette (28 min.) : 1981

DANA 368

Young wives' tales

Shows an 11 year old girl being married to a man she has never met before.

1 videocassette (15 min.) : 1998

MEDIA 2-5837

Zimbabwe

Traces the struggle of the Zimbabwean people for independence from European colonists from the defeat of the first armed rebellion in 1896 through the guerrilla war in the 1970s. Includes interviews with Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Ian Smith, and other Zimbabweans, black and white.

1 videocassette (60 min.) : 1987

MEDIA 2-3129