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African Studies Videos in the Harvard Libraries

The acquisition of African Studies videos is expensive and labor intensive, but they represent an invaluable resource for teaching and research on Africa. At Harvard the main collection of these videos is located in Widener Library, but there are also smaller collections in the Harvard Libraries listed below.

The most accurate way to determine the status of an individual African Studies video is to do a search through the HOLLIS catalogue of all Harvard Library holdings at http://lib.harvard.edu.

Harvard's Libraries serve the University's current faculty, students, staff, and researchers who hold valid Harvard IDs. Since policies on admittance and borrowing, hours, and services vary for each of them, it is best to contact them directly for details.

 
African Studies Videos in Widener Library (Main collection)

African Studies Videos in the Undergraduate Libraries

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African Studies Videos in the Specialized Libraries

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Widener's African videos must be requested at least several days in advance so they can be shipped to the Circulation Desk. This can be done in person at the Widener Circulation Desk or by computer using "HOLLIS."

XWV 441 A Bamako, les femmes sont belles. By Christiane Succab-Goldman. 1995, 65 min. Various women from Bamako, Mali discuss their memories of the past and their lives in the present as they try to balance the demands of tradition and development.

A l'Ombre du Soleil: Funérailles et Intronisation du Hogon d'Arou. 1998, 83 min., Dogon with English subtitles and voiceovers. Ethnographic research by Nadine Wanono. A film about a Dogon funeral and enthronement ritual. HOLLIS 009183455

XWV 274 Adama - The Fulani Magician. By Taale Laafi Rosellini with Moustapha Thiombiano and Lamine Keita. Music by Oger Kabore, 22min. Adama Hamidou is a deaf West African dancer, comedian, street performer and practitioner of the ancient Yan-Taori magic tradition in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Draws an intimate portrait of the man and his culture through both performance sequences and interviews in which Adama tells his own story in West African sign language.

Africa, Africas: 2001, 62 min. Distributed by Women Make Movies. HOLLIS 009167593

Fantacocà: 23 min., Directed by Agnès Ndibi; written by Alessandra Speciale. Presents the cultural phenomenon of skin bleaching in Cameroon and the challenge it is now posing on notions of black pride and identity.

From the Other Side of the River: 18 min., Directed by Moji-da Abdi. Documents the effects of war on a community of Ethiopian women and children who were forcibly relocated into refugee camps.

Laafi Bala: 20 min., Directed by Fanta Regina Nacro. Demonstrates the causes of wide-spread unemployment and poverty in Burkina Faso, where few institutional resources and government support are available, and the debilitating effects this is having on women and youth.

XWV 307 Africa Dreaming. South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Mozambique, Tunisia, 1997. 104 min. A compilation of four 26 minute short narrative films by directors from four countries. Each is set in contemporary societies and deals with the difficulties and mysteries of relationships and their societal dimensions.

Sophia's Homecoming: Namibia, directed by Richard Pakleppa. In Nama with English subtitles. Sophia's Homecoming reminds us that the devastating personal effects of the massive social dislocations caused by apartheid can never be erased.

Sabriya: Tunisia, by Abderrahmane Sissako. In Arabic with English subtitles. Explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb.

So Be It: Senegal by Joseph Gai Ramaka. In French and Wolof with English subtitles. Based on a play by Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed, offers an emotionally searing allegory of present day Africa's bloody internecine convulsions.

The Gaze of the Stars: : Mozambique directed by Joao Ribeiro. In Portuguese with English subtitles. At the center of this story is a woman, a woman felt, however, only by her absence; in other words a dream of a woman, perhaps even the lost dreams for a post-independence Mozambique.

XWV 366 Africa, Search for Common Ground: Common Ground Productions, 1997. 13 videos, 26 min. each. Filmed in various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, this series profiles a wide variety of formal efforts to resolve contemporary conflicts without resorting to violence.

1. South Africa: Thokosa video dialogue
2. Congo (former Zaire): when everything falls apart. South Africa: domestic violence in Alexandria
3. Rwanda: the war crimes trial. Burundi: reconciliation radio
4. Mozambique: cleansing the past. Angola: rivers of fear, bridges of trust
5. Liberia: a peace with teeth? Uganda: no party democracy?
6. South Africa: the hunt for witches
7. Western Sahara: the last colony? Mozambique: integration in action? Farmers in Niassa.
8. Mali: A.T. Toure and the peace flame. Lesotho: water, water everywhere
9. South Africa: truth and reconciliation
10. South Africa
11. Algeria: the struggle for free press and a democratic society
12. Kenya: democracy or disruption: Wangari, Maathai and Green Belt. Eritrea: three generation of women, three generations of struggle
13. Angola, South Africa, Namibia: San Soldiers

XWV 482 Africa Sings. Prologue by Paul Robeson; production and commentary by Joseph Best. Villon Films, 1999, b&w, 45 min. Made in 1936, The first documentary from South Africa to take a look at the lives of South Africans of all races. There are images of location life, schools and colleges, and a cross-section of occupations, from mine-workers to road-gangs, school-teachers to house-servants, waiters to cane-cutters. Also in Loeb Music Library.

XWV 249 An African Recovery. By Sandra Nichols. Co-produced by the UN, 26min. 1988. Documentary about local efforts in Niger to prevent the devastating effects of a future catastrophic drought similar to the one that ravaged the Sahel in the 1980's.

XWV 253.1-XWV 253.9 The Africans. By Ali Mazrui, co-production of WETA-TV(PBS) and BBC-TV. 1986. 9 videocassettes (60 min. ea.) This is the prime time TV series developed and hosted by Ali Mazrui. It examines what he believes is the triple heritage of Africa: its indigenous, Western, and Islamic legacies.

Vol.1-The Nature of a Continent
Vol.2-A Legacy of Lifestyles
Vol.3-New Gods
Vol.4-Tools of Exploitation
Vol.5-New Conflicts
Vol.6-In Search of Stability
Vol.7-A Garden of Eden In Decay
Vol.8-A Clash of Cultures
Vol.9-Global Africa

XWV 121 Afrique, Je Te Plumerai. Cameroon, 1992. 88 min., in French with English subtitles. A filmmaker's documentary-style essay on the history of colonialism in Cameroon, and by extension, on the African continent. The filmmaker focuses on historical as well as contemporary European cultural domination, particularly in the publishing and media industry.

Afro@Digital. Written and directed by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda ; Producer, N'Diagna Adéchoubou, 53 min. In English and French with English subtitles. Looks as the information technology revolution which has become a daily reality in many African countries where the Internet, mobile telephones and digital video cameras are being used with extraordinary creativity. Visits a marabout who explains he no longer replies by letter to questions but uses his mobile phone and email to transmit his advice. Another illustration of the digital revolution in Africa is the rise of internet cafes and cyber teahouses. HOLLIS 009246062

XWV 219 (3 parts) Aimee Césaire: Une voix pour l'histoire (A Voice for History). By Euzhan Palcy, 160 minutes. This monumental film on one of the founders of negritude weaves Césaire's life and poetry into a vast tapestry featuring some of the most important artistic and intellectual figures from the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe of the last six decades.

Ainsi meurent les anges (And so angels die). By Moussa Sene Absa, Senegal, 2001, 56 min. In French and Wolof with English subtitles. The marriage of Mory, a troubled Senegalese poet living outside Paris with his French wife and their children falls apart under cross-cultural pressures, specifically his father's demand that he take a second wife in Senegal. Homeless in winter, separated from his children, his poems scattered over a Paris street, Mory returns to Senegal, penniless and with uncertain prospects. Shows how a "dream deferred" can become a nightmare, how a stolen past can make the present impossible and render modernity untenable, how history can become paralyzed. HOLLIS 008874855 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 442 Alan Paton's Beloved Country. By Catherine Meyburgh. 54 min. Biography of South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country.

XWV 371 Allah Tantou (God's Will). Director: David Achkar, Guinea/France, 1991. In French with English subtitles; 62 minutes. Confronts the personal and political costs of widespread human rights abuses on the African continent through Achkar's search for his father, his father's search for himself inside a Guinean prison and Africa's search for a new beginning amid the disillusionment of the post-independence era. Marof Achkar, a leading figure in the new Guinean government in 1968, had been charged with treason and then vanished into the notorious Camp Boiro prison. His prison diaries come to light through his son's quest.

XWV 126 Angano. . .Angano. . .(Tales of Madagascar). Madagascar/France, 1989. By Cesar Paes. 64 min., in Malagasy with English subtitles. This film pioneers a new approach to ethnographic filmmaking, at once scrupulosly non-interpretive yet deeply evocative. The central character is the oral tradition itself which passes down the wisdom of the ancestors through myths and folktales.

Angola é a Nossa Terra. By Jane Pedro Camera, Angola, 1988, 45 min. English and Portuguese with English subtitles. "Angolan women are rarely heard describing the impact of South Africa's undeclared war against their country. This moving documentary, produced in conjunction with the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA), highlights the contribution women make to the reconstruction of a country where war has consumed more than half the national budget and produced at least a million internal refugees." HOLLIS 00916907

Apartheid Gold and Reparations. Directed and produced by Ben Cashdan, 2001, 45 min. A film about Swiss Banks' involvement in South Africa during apartheid and the debt crisis and why civil society is asking for compensation. HOLLIS 008797739

XWV 320 Arusi Ya Mariamu (The Marriage of Mariamu). Tanzania, 1996. By Nangayoma Ng'oge and Ron Mulvihilll. 36 minutes. In Kiswahili, with English subtitles. A contemporary story centering around the art and science of healing through traditional medicine. Suffering from a serious illness, Mariamu and family visit various hospitals and find themselves in conflict with their traditional values. She eventually visits the healer, where we discover the causes of her illness and follow her physical, psychological and spiritual transformation. (On the same video tape as Ushirika ni Umoja - Sharing is Unity.)

Atlantico Negro: na Rota dos Orixás (Black Atlantic: on the Orixás Route). Director, Renato Barbieri, 2001, 55 min., Portuguese with English subtitles. "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." HOLLIS 00915012

Beyond the Plains. 1982, 53 min., Produced by Michael Raeburn. Shows the traditional world of the Masai as it is confronted by the westernized, technological world by telling the life story of a young Masai. Dramatized scenes show his early life in a tiny village, his school days, etc., and his present position as a university lecturer. HOLLIS 009117059

XWV 282 Black Man's Land: Images of Colonialism and Independence in Kenya. 1979. By Anthony Howarth and David Koff. 3 cassettes, 154 mins.total. A trilogy which traces the history of British imperialism in Kenya from early white settlement through nationalist movements of the twentieth century and up to the death of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first prime minister, in 1978. Uses old photos, film clips, and more recent interviews.

White Man's Country. 51 min. Portrayal of White domination of Kenya from the late 19th century through the beginning of the modern nationalist movement.
Mau Mau. 52 min. Examines the attempt of White settlers to discredit the rising tide of nationalism in Kenya.
Kenyatta. 51 min. Examines the political life of Jomo Kenyatta, the nationalist leader and first President of Kenya.

XWV 360 Blood & Sand: War in the Sahara. By Sharon I. Sopher. Distributed by DSR, Inc., 1982. 58 min. The film provides the first Western coverage of the war in the Western Sahara.

Bopha! Arrest. South Africa, 1987, 59 min. Directed and produced by Daniel Riesenfeld. BOPHA! was a drama by South African Percy Mtwa about the tensions between a Black policeman and his activist son during the apartheid period. This documentary is about how the play came into being. It features interviews with Percy Mtwa and members of the Earth Players company and segments of the play. HOLLIS 009117049 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Bye Bye Africa. Chad. Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. 1999, 86 min. In French and Arabic with English subtitles .The first feature film from Chad. The director presents what he calls a "documentary fiction" but which might just as well be called a fictional documentary about the making of a film. One of the first films to address the technical and economic difficulties of film production in Africa.  HOLLIS 008742385 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 423 Camp de Thiaroye. Senegal, 1987. By Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow. 157 min., in Wolof and French with English subtitles. A powerful fact-based drama which deals with the dilemma of African troops serving in the French Army at the end of World War II, a time when the colonial myth of white superiority began to collapse and an African consciousness to emerge. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 145 Ça Twiste à Popenguine (Rocking Popenguine). Senegal, 1993. By Moussa Sene Absa. 90 min., in French with English subtitles. This charming and fast-paced coming of age story is an African equivalent of George Lucas' American Graffiti or Godard's Masculin, Feminine. Told through the memories of Bacc, a street-smart little boy whom the whole village has adopted, the film reveals how young Africans create identites for themselves by blending elements of French and American pop culture. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

On Order Ceddo. By Sembene Ousmane, 112 min. In Wolof and French with English subtitles. An historical epic set loosely in the 19th century, the film examines the confrontation between opposing forces in the face of Muslim expansion in Africa. Hollis 008814596. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Chatsworth: Struggle for Shelter. 2001, 26 min., Directed and Produced by Ben Cashdan. Violence broke out when police and security forces moved in to Chatsworth, Durban to evict Indian residents. The same families were evicted 36 years ago for being the wrong color; now their crime is poverty. HOLLIS 008797747

XWV 414 Chef! (Chief!). La Tete Dans Les Nuages (Head in the Clouds). Cameroon, 1999 and 1994. By Jean-Marie Teno. In French with English subtitles; 96 minutes. These two provocative documentaries are searching critiques of the political and economic stagnation besetting many African states. However, Teno also introduces the grassroots forces in civil society and the informal economy which could point the way towards vigorous democratic development in Africa. In Chef!, Teno locates the roots of Africa's authoritarian regimes in the patriarchal family, reinforced by traditional kingship and the colonial experience. In La tête dans les Nuages he investigates the ties between unaccountable government and an unproductive economy.

XWV 255 Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold. By Daniele Lacourse and Yvan Patry. 1996. In English with some subtitles: 141min. This award winning documentary on Rwanda was shot over three years and is divided into three parts. It deals with events leading up to the Rwandan genocide, the many massacres, the behavior of the international community and the search for justice.

XWV 265. Cinema in Senegal. By Roger Englander, Creative Arts TV, Cinema Three, 1997, 27min. Larry Kardish interviews Senegalese film directors Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Ousmane Sembene on the growth of the number of films from Senegal, the production of these films, and cultural influences. Includes clips from their films to illustrate points.

XWV 308 Clando: Cameroon, 1996. By Jean-Marie Teno, 95 min. Through the story of an educated man from Cameroon, this thought provoking feature addresses several issues confronting Africa's professional classes. It asks, should they stay and commit to the difficult work of gaining political and economic democracy or pursue individual achievement by immigrating to Europe?

Colonial Cinema: Films from Central Africa 1940's-1960's. 2 cassettes. This is a selection of films from colonial Rhodesia and Nyasaland made for Africans. The intention was to project a benevolent paternalism. HOLLIS 008696888

Box 1:
Mary's Lucky Day-B&W, silent with music, 11 min. Lux toilet soap commercial
The Box (1948, color, silent, 22 min. Central African Film Unit)
The New Acres -B&W, sound, 14 min., Central African Film Unit, directed by Henry Berriff, produced by Dick Rayner.

Box 2:
We Were Primitive: 1947, B&W, sound, 19 min., Southern Rhodesia Information Service
The Five Messengers: 1948, color, silent, 31 min., Central African Film Unit

The following may also be on these cassettes:
Mattaka Buys a Car
Rhodesia & Nyasaland News: B&W, sound, 10 min., Central African Film Unit
Freedom From Fear: 1960, B&W, sound, 15 min., Central African Film Unit

XWV 150 The Colour of Gold. South Africa, 1992. By Don Edkins and Mike Schlomer, 52 minutes. The action takes place in the underground stopes of the President Steyn Gold Mine and in the miners' barracks, where 8000 men are enclosed in a compound next to a mine shaft. Four men who share a small room with twelve others question the hazards of their dangerous work and rue how their jobs have destroyed their families, who are not allowed into South Africa. They speak candidly about life in a single sex hostel, use of prostitutes, money, AIDS - even about second families which some miners have started in South Africa.

XWV 361 Consequences: Zimbabwe, 1989 by Media for Development Trust. 54 min. Documents the consequences of teenage pregnancy for a sixteen year-old girl in Zimbabwe.

XWV 447 The Cow Jumped Over the Moon. By Christopher Walker, 1999, 52 min. Explores the consequences of drought on Fulani herders in Mali. Documents the interaction between the tradition-based knowledge of these nomads and the advanced technological knowledge of agencies such as NASA and NOAA which is being used to improve Fulani access to water and pasture.

XWV 299 Crossroads. By Hillie Molenaar and Joop van Wijk, 55 min. 1996. Tells the story of the Rwandan massacres and refugees from the perspective of a tiny crossroads hamlet which for a brief time became a boom town when half a million Rwandan refugees settled there.

XWV 311 Dakan. By Mohamed Camara, Guinea, 1997. 87 min. The first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa. It was met with angry protests when it was shot in the director's native Guinea and has generated heated debate among Africanists as well. In this compelling film, two young men and their families confront the issue and how it changes their lives. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 274 Dance of the Bella. By Taale Laafi Rosellini, 11 min. A film of dance performed to humming and hand-clapping on the southern reaches of the Sahara desert. The Bella people, having survived seven years of drought and famine, dance at dusk, as they celebrate Tabasky ('Id al-Adha), the major Islamic feast in West Africa.

HXBV3D Dancing Out of Tune: A History of the Media in Zimbabwe. By Edwina Spicer. Harare, Zimbabwe,1999. 56 min.

Daresalam (Let There Be Peace). Chad. Issa Serge Coelo. 2000,105 min. In Arabic and French with English subtitles. The first African feature film to focus on the civil wars convulsing the continent from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It provides compelling insights into how ordinary people around the world get swept up in extraordinary events. Its timeless story of two childhood friends in Chad turned into political foes personalizes the terrible costs of internecine strife. HOLLIS 008814600 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

The Day I Will Never Forget. 2002, 90 min., English and Kenyan languages, with English subtitles. Examines the practice of female genital mutilation in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are reversing the tradition. HOLLIS 009169085

XWV152 A Day with the President. South Africa, 1995. By Nicolaas Hofmeyr, 56 minutes. Created to mark the first anniversary of Nelson Mandela's inauguration, this special episode of Ordinary People provides a remarkably intimate portrait of South Africa's leader.

XWV 296 The Deadline. By David Jammy, 52 min. 1996. Commissioned by the South African Constitutional Assembly to document the process and negotiations which led to the new Constitution which had to be written by the deadline of May 10, 1996.

On Order The Desired Number. 1995, 28 min. Directed by Nqozi Onwurah, Produced by Simon Onwurah and Daniel Riesenfeld. 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. HOLLIS 009169088

Destination Cameroon. 1990, 19 min., Office of Creative Services, United States Peace Corps. Depicts interaction of Peace Corps members in the daily lives of the people of Cameroon. HOLLIS 007374768

XWV 284. Dignity: African Women in Crisis. By Raphael Tuju, Kenya, 1992, 27 min. Produced for United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), African Women in Crisis Initiative (AFWIC). The message of this video is that African women bear the brunt of every crisis but that they remain with their dignity. It shows the resilience of African women in the face of tragedies, like the death of loved ones, rape, and lack of food for their families. Also discussed is how the UNIFEM/AFWIC programme has helped women to learn new skills in agriculture, construction and trade.

XWV 274 Diro and His Talking Musical Bow. By Taale Laafi Rosellini, 11 min. A portrait of West African musician, Diro Dah, who gathers materials from nature to construct, tune and play a new kankarama (musical bow). Using music to imitate the rising and falling tones of the Lobi language in a hide-and-seek game, Diro engages village children as he directs them to a hidden object with his talking musical bow.

XWV 370 Divine Carcasse. Directed by Dominique Loreau; Belgium/Benin, 1998. In French, Fon and Yoruba with English subtitles; 59 minutes. Half fictional and half ethnographic, this hybrid film is a study in cultural contrasts between a desacralized, materialistic Eurpean view of reality and an animist, pre-industrial African view. A used car becomes the crux of an uneasy encounter between our different, deep-seated ideas about economics, art, anthropology and religion. Building on the work of ethnographer Jean Rouch, it asks us to recognize both cultural views as equally valid and equally fictional. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Dole (Money). By Imunga Ivanga. Gabon, 2001, 80 min. In French with English subtitles This look at youth culture in the streets of Libreville won first prize at Carthage in 2000, and best screenplay in Ouagadougou 2001. HOLLIS 008874857

XWV 298 Donka: X-ray of an African Hospital. A film by Thierry Michel. 59 min., 1996. This documentary follows daily life in the largest public hospital in the Republic of Guinea, Donka Hospital, in Conakry.

Ebola War: The Nurses of Gulu. 2002, 46 min. Produced by Alethia Productions. When Ebola broke out in Northern Uganda, there were scant resources and little knowledge about how to deal with it at Lacor Hospital, in Gulu, Uganda. For nearly a month, medical staff treated Ebola patients without knowing what it was. Soon, however, it became clear that the nursing and medical staff were at risk from this haemorrhagic disease. In Ebola War, the nurses tell how they struggled to contain the outbreak. Through interviews, personal accounts and archival footage, this film documents a five-month heroic battle in an African hospital against a modern-day plague, and the final triumph over the outbreak. HOLLIS 009150107

XWV 283. Enkishon: The Maasai Child in Kenya. By Jane Murago-Munene, 1995. Maasai twins journey from their modern school to their rural Maasai homestead where we are introduced to their brother and his warrior agemates. The twins have to make difficult decisions about their future; will they continue their assigned places in the Maasai society, continuing centuries-old traditions?

XWV 153 Eritrea: Hope in the Horn of Africa (After Peace Falls Rain). By Henri Alexandre. From Grassroots International, 1993. 30 minutes. This film demonstrates how the Eritreans are rebuilding a country devastated by 30 years of war with Ethiopia and a decade of drought. It conveys peoples exuberance for their hard-fought freedom as it displays how they are acting on their commitment to construct a new model of democratic development in the post-Cold War world.

XWV 315 Everyone's Child. Zimbabwe, 1996. By Tsitsi Dangarembga, 90 min. A theatrical film about the tragic fate of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS. Produced in direct response to the prediction that by the year 2000 there will be over 10,000,000 AIDS orphans in Africa. Script based on a story by Shimmer Chinodya, directed by the author of "Nervous Condition." Soundtrack features 12 original songs by Zimbabwe's most popular musicians. Stars leading Zimbabwean actors, but many of the younger roles played by streetchildren trained in a special workshop. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Everything Must Come to Light. South Africa, Directed by Mpumi Njinge and Paulo Alberton, 2002, 25 min. This documentary focuses on the lives of three dynamic lesbian women who are sangomas (traditional healers) living in Soweto, South Africa. They are articulate, sympathetic women who are willing to share their stories. After leaving their husbands, two of the women were able to explore their sexuality in relation to other women as a result of their dominant male ancestors instructing them to take wives. The relationship with their ancestors and the roles that they play in their healing powers as well as their sexuality, are focal points in this documentary. HOLLIS 009183709

Faat Kine. Senegal, Ousmane Sembene. 2000, 110 min. In French and Wolof with English. Ousmane Sembene, the unquestioned father of African cinema, calls his fellow Africans to a reckoning of the post-independence era. At 77, he sums up 40 years of path-breaking filmmaking with a penetrating analysis of the interplay of gender, economics and power in today's Africa. He accomplishes all this through the deceptively light domestic drama of Faat Kine, a gas station operator born significantly, the same year as Senegalese independence, 1960.  HOLLIS 008742443 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Fang: An Epic Journey. Directed and Written by Susan M. Vogel. 2001, 8 min. "This is a work of fiction but everything in it is based on real events." About the journey of an African sculpture, beginning in Cameroon in 1904. The film then traces what happens to the sculpture in Paris in 1907 and 1917, Berlin in 1933, and New York in 1948. The sculpture finally ends up in a museum in 1970. HOLLIS 009194042

Fathers. Each of these three dramatic shorts from Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia offers a critical look at the relationship between fathers and their children in contemporary Africa. HOLLIS 008874859

Surrender: By Celine Gilbert. Tanzania, 2000, 26 min. In Swahili with English subtitles. Shows the traditional face of paternal tyranny, a father controlling his son's life. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

The Father: By Ermias Woldeamlak, Ethiopia, 2000, 26 min. In Amharic with English subtitles. The patriarch in question is ultimately the military dictatorship which terrorized Ethiopia in the '70s and '80s. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

A Barber's Wisdom: By Amaka Igwe, Nigeria, 2000, 26 min. In English. Satirizes a modern father who compromises his children in his relentless pursuit of money. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV142 Femmes Aux Yeux Ouverts (Women With Open Eyes). Togo, 1994. By Anne-Laure Folly. 52 min., in French with English subtitles. This film presents portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations as they speak out on issues such as marital rights, female genital mutilation, and women's roles in economics and politics.

Femmes du Niger: Entre Integrisme et Democratie (Women of Niger: Between Fundamentalism and Democracy). 1993, 26 min., In French with English subtitles. Distributed by Women Make Movies. Focuses on the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on women's rights in Niger and how this clashes with the country's struggle for democracy. HOLLIS 009182324

HXBV4F Fighting for Rights, Pre-Poll 2002 Zimbabwe Before the Elections. By Edwina Spicer. Zimbabwe 2002. 45min.

XWV 376 Fintar o Destino (Dribbling Fate). Directed by Fernando Vendrell, Portugal/Cape Verde, 1998, 77 min.. In Portuguese and Criolo with English subtitles. An aging sports hero holds onto his past so strongly he risks destroying his present. This film explores the tension, personal and political, between remaining true to one's dreams or making the best of limited opportunities. The dilemma is posed here in terms of an entire nation: whether Cape Verdeans should accept life on their isolated islands or pursue their ambitions for a life overseas. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 234 Finzan. By Cheick Oumar Sissoko. Mali, 1990, 107 min., in Bambara with English subtitles. A story of two women's rebellion from the customs of circumcision and forced marriage. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 310 Flame. Zimbabwe, 1996. By Ingrid Sinclair, 85 min. A feature film which presents the view of Zimbabwe's national liberation war from the perspective of its female combatants. It also follows the life of its main character after the war. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

HXBV3Q Food Distribution in Zimbabwe. By Edwina Spicer. Zimbabwe 2002. 14 min.

XWV154 The Forbidden Land. Eritrea, 1989. By Daniele Lacourse and Yvan Patry. 55 minutes. Using archival footage to document the conflict's roots and its escalation, the film examines the human cost of the tragic war which resulted in Eritrea's independence.

Forgotten Children: The Legacy of Poverty and AIDS in Africa. 2001. Brad Strickland and Donna Woolf, 13 min. U.S. Agency for International Development. HOLLIS 008832674

XWV 257 Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda. By Kathy Austin, 1997, Amnesty International, USA. 34 min. Documentary examines Rwanda as a case study of the human rights challenge of the 21st century. Incorporates historical footage, interviews, analyses.

XWV 232 Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask: By Isaac Julien, 1995, 50 min. A film biography of the preeminent anti-colonial theorist whose written works were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both the colonized and colonizer.

XWV 206 Fraud and Corruption: A Growing Concern in Zimbabwe: 1996. Media for Development Trust, with sponsorship from the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management (ZIPAM). 30 min.

Future Remembrance: Photography and Image Arts in Ghana: 1998, 55 min. By Tobias Wendl and Nancy du Plessis. 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. HOLLIS 009183457

XWV 413 Genesis (La Genese). Mali, 1999. By Cheick Oumar Sissoko. 102 minutes In Bambara with English subtitles. Sissoko discovers insights into one of the most urgent problems facing Africa and indeed the world - fratricidal strife - by returning to the biblical account of its origins. He uses the story of Jacob and Esau to explore internecine wars from Liberia to Somalia and from Congo to Kosovo. By translating this archetypal story into a distinctively West African context, Sissoko makes it possible for us to see Africans not as an other but as representatives of a universal humanity. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 445 Gerrie & Louise. South Africa, 1997. By Sturla Gunnarsson. 75 min. The story of one of the world's most unlikely couples, set against the backdrop of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Gito l'Ingrat (Gito the Ungrateful). 1982, 90 min., In French with English subtitles. By Léonce Ngabo. "Gito, a student from Burundi studying in Paris, decides to return home, taking with him his brand new diploma and a heap of illusions. Gito personifies the young African intellectual who, having immersed himself in a foreign culture, rediscovers the country of his origins and sees his utopian dreams confronted by daily realities." HOLLIS 009116861 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 342 Give Me a Shilling: Phenomenon of the Street Children. Ukweli Video Productions; producers/directors, Richard J. Quinn, Martin Kivuva. 45 min. 1996. Pictures of the Charles Lwanga Watoto project, the efforts of the Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga not only to rehabilitate Nairobi's street children, but to prevent slum children from ending up in the streets. Features life in the slums, the situation of the street children, the efforts of the social workers to involve the children's parents, the various reception centers, the vocational school, the Boy's Town Ruai Residential School, the community of the Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga.

Globalisation and Africa: Which Side Are We On? By Ben Cashdan. South Africa, 2001. 55 min. This is a guerrilla-cinema-style compilation of clips, constantly evolving and presented interactively by the filmmaker. With clips of local struggles in the townships of South Africa and material from the Durban Anti-Racism Conference in September and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2001, the film raises questions about the impact of globalisation on ordinary South Africans. HOLLIS 008797737

XWV 151 Goldwidows. Lesotho, 1991. By Don Edkins, Ute Hall, and Mike Schlomer. 52 minutes. Focuses on four Basotho women of Lesotho. Although most Basotho men, and sometimes 60% at once, have worked in South Africa's gold mines, apartheid laws forbid these women and their children from entering South Africa. They are forced to live as practical widows. Each tells of her life, coping alone, caught in the inhumane web of South Africa's oppresive system.

BKS7936 Great Great Great Grandparents' Music. 120 min. Feature documentary film from African Family Films. Presents an intimate look at three generations of musicians and hair-braiders living in the Sahelian region of West Africa. Brings to the fore the role of the family in the lives of traditional djeli (West African carriers of collective knowledge and music).

XWV 441 Guelwaar. Senegal, 1993. By Ousmane Sembene. 115 min, in Wolof and French with English subtitles. A trenchant comedy of contemporary Senegal, this film revolves around the mysterious disappearance of "Guelwaar", a political activist, philandering patriarch, and a pillar of the local Christian community. It is a political and social satire, a family drama and an indictment of homegrown African corruption and neocolonial Western aid. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 218 Guimba the Tyrant. Mali, Cheick Oumar Sissoko, 1995, 93 minutes. This epic allegory contrasts Africa's tremendous wealth and potential with its present poverty and plunder. Sissoko comments, "Guimba is a political film, a fable about power, its atrocities and its absurdities." Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

The Guguletu Seven. Lindy Wilson. 2001.107 min. Investigates the tragic deaths of a group of young black South Africans in 1986. Originally reported as a terrorist ambush thwarted by the police, the story behind the incident is uncovered by investigators for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Hollis 009117041.

XWV 365 Hausar Baka: "Gani ya kori ji" Elementary and intermediate lessons in Hausa language and culture. Richard Randell, Abdullahi Bature, and Russell G. Schhu 3 videos, 100 min. ea. and accompanying text.

Healers of Ghana. 1996, 58 min. Written by J. Scott Dodds. Explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central Ghana and how their healers are accommodating the conflict between the arrival of Western medicine and their religious beliefs. Traditionally, Bono tribal priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, during which deities reveal to them the causes of illnesses, which plants to use to treat them, who is perpetrating witchcraft, and which villagers might be endangering society through improper behavior. HOLLIS 009227940

XWV 384 Heart and Stone: The Life and Times of Govan Mbeki. 1997, 90 min., Produced and Directed by Bridget Thompson. Feature-length documentary on the life, history and politics of ANC stalwart Govan Mbeki. A remarkable look not only at the man, but also at the family. Viewers also get to see the infamous Robben Island Prison from the point of view of a long-term inmate. Mbeki, father of South Africa's first Vice-president, tells his story in simple, uncomplicated terms uncluttered by ideology. HOLLIS 007920033

XWV 144 Hyenas. Senegal, 1992. By Djibril Diop Mambety. 113 min, in Wolof with English subtitles. An adaptation of a timeless parable of human greed into a biting satire of today's Africa, betraying the hopes of independence for the false promises of Western materialism. An old woman returns to her native village after she becomes rich and seeks revenge against the lover of her youth. Eventually she turns the village into a notorious black market, catering to the pleasure of the consumer society. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 250 I Have a Problem, Madam. By Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele,1995, 59min. Examines the conflicts in the legal position of women in Uganda through onsight visits to legal clinics and courtrooms.

XWV 280 Imperfect Journey. By Haile Gerima. (88 min.) Filmmaker surveys his home country of Ethiopia today, after the fall of the Mengistu dictatorship.

XWV 323 In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid. 1993. By Peter Davis. 2 videos, 54 min. each. Turns the lens on filmmakers and the South African society they so often misrepresented. Films generally supported the ethos of racial domination and it was only after Africans insisted on being heard that they began to be portrayed on-screen as more than mere adjuncts of whites. Includes newsreel footage of violence in South Africa and interviews with producers, directors, screenwriters, authors and actors.

XWV141 In a Time of Violence. South Africa, 1994, 3 parts. By Brian Tillery,150 min., in English, Zulu, and Afrikaans with English subtitles. A fast-paced political thriller set during the final tense months of apartheid. One of the most ambitious television dramas ever produced in South Africa, the series dramatizes the basic ANC policy of ethnic reconciliation within a multi-racial democratic society. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Inagina: l'Ultime Maison du Fer (The Last House of Iron). 1997, 54 min. Eric Huysecom and Bernard Agustoni work with 13 Dogon master smelters to recreate the building of a traditional iron smelting furnace in Mali. The film describes in detail every aspect of the event, from the selection of the site of the reconstruction which is the oldest remaining furnace site in the region, last active in 1961, to the final result. HOLLIS 009183456

It's Up to Us. Writer, Cathrine Kellison, 1986, 60 min. Byllye Avery, representative of the National Black Women's Health Project and her friends from Georgia travel to Kenya to exchange ideas with Kenyan women and also to attend Forum '85, the United Nations Decade for Women Conference, July 15-26, 1985, held at University of Nairobi and hosted by Kenya. Includes excerpts from workshops and lectures held at the conference. HOLLIS 009169090

Jews in Distant Lands: The Falashas of Ethiopia. By the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Part 1- The Discovery of the Falashas, Part 2 -The Falashas in Transition. HOLLIS 008405148

XWV 212 Jit. By Michael Raeburn, Zimbabwe, 1993, 92min. Inspired by the Zimbabwean pop music known as Jit-jive, is a romantic comedy about one young man's determination to win over the prettiest girl in town. Many of Zimbabwe's leading musicians contributed to the muscial score for Jit which underscores the beat and basic rhythm of the movie. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

John M. Coetzee: Passages. 1997, 54 min. "In a rare television appearance the author, J.M. Coetzee, recounts some of his childhood reminiscences and reads selected passages from his novels. Filmed on location in South Africa, Coetzee's readings are complemented by 'evocative sounds and images' allowing the viewer an opportunity to experience the power of his writing. Through the commentary of various academics and writers, the video offers stimulating insight into the discussion of J.M. Coetzee and his work." HOLLIS: 009190724

Kafi's Story. UK and Sudan. Arthur Howes and Amy Hardie. 53 minutes, 1989. In Nuba, Arabic and English with English Subtitles. Kafi's Story and Nuba Conversations, two films shot in the same places by the same filmmaker only ten years apart, offer an opportunity to measure the full devastation of Africa's civil wars. They expose a human rights tragedy of epic proportions which has remained invisible to the rest of the world: the deliberate destruction of the ancient Nuba civilization by the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Sudan. Shot in 1989, Kafi's Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. HOLLIS 008742480

Karmen Gei. By Joseph Gaï Ramaka, Senegal, 2001, 82 min. In French and Wolof with English subtitles. Shot mostly on Goree Island, this Senegalese remake of Carmen features a bisexual Carmen, hilarious, bawdy tasu songs by women in prison, and fabulous music by Doudou Ndiaye Rose, Yande Coudou Sene, El Hadj Ndiaye and jazz sax player David Murray. HOLLIS  008874853 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 279 Keeping a Live Voice: 15 years of Democracy in Zimbabwe. 54 min., 1995. The views of a wide cross section of Zimbabweans, 15 years after gaining their independence, in the run up to the what were eventually uncontested elections.

XWV 140 Keïta: The Heritage of the Griot: Burkina Faso, 1995. By Dani Kouyaté. 94 min., in Jula and French with English subtitles. The story of Mabo Keïta, a contemporary boy form Burkina Faso, learning the history of the family. Mabo and his distant ancestor, Sundjatat, engage in parallel quests to understand their destinies, to "know the meaning of their names."

XWV 373 The Language You Cry In. Producer/Directors: Alvaro Toepke & Angel Serrano; Sierra Leone/Spain, 1998. In English and Mende with English subtitles, 52 minutes. A scholarly detective story reaching from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia, this film demonstrates how African Americans have retained links with their African past. Research in Georgia in the 1930's by linguist Lorenzo Turner and discovery of a particular African song begins a trail of clues that led a group of scholars to finally in 1989 reunite a Gullah delegation with the village of their ancestors.

The Last Warriors. 2001, 294 min., 5 cassettes, written by Ben Ulm. Filmed over a four-year period, this five-part series films weddings, funerals, rites of passage, and celebrations among seven of Africa's so-called "warrior" ethnic groups. HOLLIS: 009227941

The Search for Mingi: the Hamar and Karo Tribes
The Day of the Donga: the Mursi Tribe
Stealing Beauty: the Wodaabe and Tuareg Nomads
A Bride's Story: the Afar Tribe
Man of the Men: the Dinka Tribe

XWV 244 Les Derniers Colons (The Last Colonials). By Thierry Michel, 1995, 61min. A documentary about the last whites living in Congo-Kinshasa (Zaire) against the backdrop of the escalating crises in that country. In French with English subtitles.

XWV 410 La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun) 1999. By Djibril Diop Mambety. 43min. Mambety's last film which he described as a "hymn to the courage of street children." Originally conceived as the second part, after "Le Franc," of an unfinished trilogy of dramatic shorts entitled "Tales of Little People." Sili Laam, the la petite vendeuse, is a 12 year old paraplegic who begs for alms in the market with her blind grandmother. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 127 La Vie Est Belle (Life is Rosy): Zaire/Belgium, 1987. By Nguingura Mweze. 85 min., in French with English subtitles. This film takes the viewer inside the vibrant music scene of Kinshasha, where World Beat music legend Papa Wemba tells the "rags to riches" story of a poor country musician who seeks fame in the city's music industry.

XWV 416 La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth): Mali, 1998. By Abderrahmane Sissako. In French and Bambara with English subtitles; 61 min. Conceived as part of 2000 Vue Par, a European television series which invited ten outstanding independent producers to imagine the last day of the present century in their own countries. Sissako improvised a "fictional documentary" out of daily life in Sokolo, his father's village in Mali near the southeastern corner of Mauritania. He then overlaid these vignettes with readings from Aimé Césaire, locating them within the poet's critique of the relationship between metropole and periphery. Behind all of this, he weaves the melancholy tones of the great Malian tenor, Salif Keita. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 216 Le Grand Blanc de Lambaréné (The Great White Man of Lambarene): Cameroon/Gabon/France, Bassek ba Kobhio, 94 minutes. The Cameroonian filmmaker provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. This film, which begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the view of the colonized, is a deeply-felt lament for a cross-cultural encounter between Africa and Europe which never happened.

XWV 269 Lesser child. UNICEF film by Raphael Tuju, Kenya, 1993, 32 min. Traditional society in Kenya valued the birth of a girl less than that of a boy. Not only that, but girls were treated very differently from boys and men throughout their lives, having to defer to men continually. This tradition is still very strong in spite of the fact that modern education has been accessible to girls for quite a number of years. The video features interviews with women in many different fields and stresses how far they still have to go before there is full equality for girls and women, both in theory and in practice.

XWV 44O The Life and Times of Sara Baartman: South Africa, 1998. By Zola Maseko, 52 min. A documentary film about the fascinating story of this Khoi Khoi woman who was taken from South Africa in 1810, and then exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and idea of "The Hottentot Venus" swept through British popular culture.

Lobola: South Africa, 1954, b&w, 26 min. Contemporary Films/McGraw-Hill. A vintage film which purports to Illustrate some of the social problems confronting millions of South Africans and offer glimpses of the daily life in a village far removed from European influence. Aims to portray the social contrasts between life in a village and in the large cities. HOLLIS 009116869

XWV 735 Long Night's Journey into Day: Iris Films/Iris Feminist Collective. Directors, Frances Reid & Deborah Hoffmann. 2000, 95 min. When apartheid collapsed in South Africa, its enforcers wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth & Reconciliation Commission was formed. As it investigated the crimes of apartheid, the Commission brought together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa's brutal history. By revealing the past instead of burying it, it hoped to pave the way to a peaceful future. This film follows several cases over a two year period.

PN1997 .L848 2001x Lumumba: Directed by Raoul Peck; screenplay by Raoul Peck & Pascal Bonitzer. 115 min. 2001. This theatrical release is a gripping political thriller which tells the story of the legendary Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba and his assassination after only two months as President of his country. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Lumumba: La mort du prophète. Raoul Peck. 1992, 69 min. In French with English subtitles. An acclaimed documentary on Patrice Lumumba and the Congo, it examines the life and legacy of one of the legendary figures of modern African history. (Peck is also the director of the 2001 feature film "Lumumba.") HOLLIS 008742515

Les Maitres Fous: 29 min., Originally produced as a documentary film in 1954. Directed by Jean Rouch, Produced by Pierre Braunberger. This film documents the Haouka, a religious movement which was widespread in Ghana from the 1920's to the 1950's. Shows devotees living and working in Accra and participating in a ceremony. HOLLIS 008990055

XWV 251 Mama Awethu! By Bethany Yarrow, 1993, 53 min. Follows the day to day lives of five Black South African women around Cape Town, revealing the inhuman legacy of the apartheid system.

XWV 422 Mandabi (The Money Order): Senegal, 1968. By Ousmane Sembene. 90 min., in Wolof with English subtitles. This classic film which is an adaptation of Sembene's short novel "Le Mandat," is the story of a man attempting to cash a money order in Senegal and encountering all of the excesses of an African bureaucracy. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 295 Matamata and Pilipili. By Tristan Bourlard, 55 min., 1996. Examines the 20 comic films made in the 1950's by a Belgian missionary and their role in Congolese popular culture.

Mobutu, King of Zaire: An African Tragedy: 1999, 3 cassettes 52 min. each. French and English, with English subtitles. "The definitive visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years. Drawing upon 140 hours of rare archival material found in Kinshasa, and 50 hours of interviews with those once close to him, it tells the story of the man at the heart of Central Africa's post-colonial history." HOLLIS 008833273

XWV138 Monday's Girls: Great Britain/Nigeria, 1993. By Ngozi Onwurah. 50 min., in Waikiriki and English with English subtitles. An exploration of the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young Waikiriki women from the Niger delta.

More Time: South Africa, Media for Development Trust. 1993, 90 min. A young girl coming of age in contemporary Africa must come face-to-face with the responsibility of becoming sexually active in a time of AIDS. HOLLIS 009006458

XWV 357 Mortu Nega (Death Denied): Guinea-Bissau by Flora Gomes, 82 min. 1988. Chronicles the liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau after January 1973, just a month before Amilcar Lopes Cabral's assassination; life behind the front-lines; and the aftermath and politics of independent Guinea Bissau. It is also the story of two fighters and their companions who sacrifice, home, rice fields, and children to fight for a cause.

Mozambique - The Struggle for Survival: 1988, 57 min. Takes a look at Mozambique, Africa's poorest nation, where there is a threat of full-scale famine and which is under seige from RENAMO, a terrorist group supported by South Africa. HOLLIS 009116854

XWV 245 My Beloved Country: by Saskia Vredeveld, South Africa, 1991, 50 min. An extremely provocative look from within at right-wing Afrikaner extremists. In Afrikaans with English subtitles.

XWV 188 My Vote Makes the Difference: by Isaiya Kabira, Kenya, 1995, 22min. Institute for Education in Democracy in Nairobi. Includes a trainer's guide.

Nadine Gordimer: A Portrait: 50 min. Personal and political profile of South Africa's Nobel Prize-winning writer. HOLLIS: 009116821

Naked Spaces: Living is Round. 1985, 137 min., Produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier, Directed and written by Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal. HOLLIS 009182316

Namibia - No Easy Road to Freedom. By Kevin Harris, 1988, 59 min. This documentary explores the struggles of the Namibian people to win their independence from South Africa, which illegally occupied their country since the 1971 revocation of the UN mandate, and documents the human rights violations committed by the South African armed forces. HOLLIS 009116842

Ndeysaan: Le prix du pardon (The Price of Forgiveness). Senegal. By Mansour Sora Wade. 90 min. in Lébou with English subtitles. This haunting African feature film chronicles the murder of a man by his best friend. It traces the villain's attempts at redemption only finally won in death. HOLLIS 009246081 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 408 Neria: by Godwin Mawuru. 103 min. 1992. A drama by Tsitsi Dangaremba on the legal rights of African widows. Told through the story of Neria and what happens to her and her family when her husband's brother asserts his "traditional" rights when her husband dies.

HXBV31 Never the Same Again: Zimbabwe's Growth Towards Democracy. By Edwina Spicer. Zimbabwe, 2000. 60 min.

Nuba Conversations. UK and Sudan. By Arthur Howes. 55 minutes, 2001. In Nuba, Arabic and English with English subtitles. Ten years after shooting Kafi's Story, British filmmaker Arthur Howes re-entered the Sudan clandestinely to find out what had happened to the Nuba of Torogi. Everywhere he encountered the effects of the fundamentalist Sudanese regime's policy of forced Arabization through a systematic disruption of the Nuba family, the key agency of cultural transmission. HOLLIS 008742526

XWV 375 O Testamento Do Sr. Napumoceno (Napumoceno's Will) Producer/Director: Francisco Manso; Portugal/Cape Verde, 1998. In Portuguese with English subtitles; 110 minutes. An epic farce on the hollowness at the core of provincial bourgeois life. Contemporary Cape Verdean writer Germano Almeida explores the riddle of a wealthy trader's will leaving his estate to a heretofore unknown illegitimate daughter instead of to the expected heirs. The story unfolds in flashbacks through a series of audiotapes the man has made as a kind of apologia for his life. The film reflects Cape Verde's rich and complex cultural heritage. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

One Woman, One Vote: The Gender Politics of South African Elections. 2002, by Glenda Fick, Sheila Meintjes, and Mary Simons. HOLLIS 009223680

On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps To Freedom: By Leelai Demoz & Eric Simonson. 2000. 56 min. At a time of great historical change, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, an acoustic, a cappella male chorus, overcame artistic and political obstacles of segregation in Apartheid South Africa, as well as greeted the new realities of an integrated democratic South Africa. This is the first documentary on the early history of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Paul Simon/Graceland connection, their worldwide fame, and future direction. HOLLIS 008899031

XWV 439 Our Friends at the Bank: By Peter Chappell. 1997, 90 min. A documentary which looks at the relationship between the Government of Uganda and the World Bank over a period of 18 months. Follows World Bank and International Monetary Fund decision-makers in Uganda, showing how top-level decisions are made in the field.

Out in South Africa: By Barbara Hammer, 1994, 51 min. A look at the social and political conditions for gay and lesbian people in present-day South Africa. Features interviews and historical background on the country's transformation into an open society for gay people. HOLLIS 009182326

Patient Abuse: South Africa's Struggle for AIDS Treatment: By Jack Lewis, South Africa, 2001, 58 min. With one in five South Africans infected with the AIDS virus and one in four pregnant South African women HIV+, the AIDS epidemic is having a devastating impact on the new South Africa. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has labeled the crisis, "the new apartheid". This new activist documentary introduces audiences to the Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa's inspiring grassroots AIDS organization, leading the fight against the greed of international pharmaceutical companies and the inaction of the South African government . HOLLIS 008874861

XWV 290 Peaceful Co-existency: By Albert Wandago, Nairobi, 1995. African women speak about their role in peacemaking in countries such as Angola, Kenya, and the Sudan. They decry the fact that is men who engage in war but it is women and children who make up the majority of the population in refugee camps. The general feeling of the women is that there would be fewer wars if they were given a greater share in government decision making once peace has been re-established.

XWV 378 Perspectives on Violence: Published by the Centre for the Study of Violence & Reconciliation, 1995.

XWV 415 Pieces d'Identites: Congo/Belgium, 1998. By Mweze Ngangura. In French with English subtitles; 93 minutes. An award-winning comedy looking at the lives of various African immigrants in today's Europe. A modern fairy tale set in the vibrant African emigré demi-monde of contemporary Europe. More than the timeless story of an old king, his beautiful if wayward daughter, a dragon of sorts and the prince charming who rescues them, it raises some of the most troubling issues of identity facing people of African descent in the ever-widening Diaspora of the late 20th century.

XWV 444 Politics Do Not a Banquet Make: Ethiopia, 1997. By Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele. 52 min. A documentary on Ethiopia and how its people and leaders are dealing with the aftermath of war, famine and political upheaval.

HXBV43 Post-Poll 2002: Zimbabwe After the Elections by Edwina Spicer. Zimbabwe 2002.

XWV 312 Prime Time South Africa: South Africa, 1995-96, 105 min. A compilation of television from post-apartheid South Africa which reflects the changes taking place there. Includes a nighttime soap opera, a sitcom set in a multliracial law office, a public service game show, a health education soap opera, an issue-oriented drama set in a community radio station, and three commercials.

Propaganda Films from Apartheid South Africa: South Africa's Campaign of Disinformation and Misinformation Aimed at its Friends Among the Western Powers. Villon Films, 2003

Selection I? : HOLLIS 008696633

African Powerhouse: Films of Africa Production, 14 min. Presents South Africa as the major industrial power of Africa, a bulwark against communism.

Images of South Africa: Raymond Hancock Film, 17 min. Seductive pictures of a beautiful and peaceful country.

South Africa: 26 min. A message for the world: A skillful appeal to the emotions presenting South Africa as a country struggling to solve its racial problems.

ANC Campaign of Misinformation: Writer, Rick Schmidt, 10 min. A film made by an American religious figure attacking the ANC.

The ANC: A Time for Candour: Writer, Rick Schmidt, 30 min. A film which attacks the African National Congress and tries to make it appear to be a communist organization. A savage and distorted attack on the ANC that includes appeals from religious figures and denunciations of the ANC by President Ronald Reagan.

Story of South Africa: Raymond Hancock Film, 22 min. South Africa's history seen from the viewpoint of its Afrikaner rulers.

Selection II: HOLLIS 009117324

Children: The P.R. Pawns of Terrorism: Writer, Rick Schmidt, 10 min. Presents the African National Congress as a communist-inspired corrupter of black youth in South Africa.

The ANC: A Time for Candour: Writer, Rick Schmidt, 30 min. A film which attacks the African National Congress and tries to make it appear to be a communist organization. A savage and distorted attack on the ANC that includes appeals from religious figures and denunciations of the ANC by President Ronald Reagan.

Progress in Education: Directed by Carrol Shore, 20 min. This film extolling the virtues of Bantu Education was made during the apartheid period for the government's Department of Education & Training.

Selection III: HOLLIS 009117325

Bantu Education

The Work Seekers

To Act a Lie: An apartheid Ministry of Information film denouncing the 'bias' of films critical of South Africa.

A Visit to the Border

Selection IV: HOLLIS 009117332

Remnants of the Stone Age People: 31 min. An apartheid Ministry of Information film about the Bushmen.

Bantu Tribes of Southern Africa: 21 min. An apartheid Ministry of Information film about the different peoples who made up South Africa

Selection V: HOLLIS 009117336

Anatomy of Apartheid: A Defense of South Africa's Apartheid Policies: By Antony Thomas, 23 min. A South African government defense of apartheid.

Soweto, the 16th of June

Selection VI: HOLLIS 009117340

The Story of South Africa: Raymond Hancock Film, 22 min. South Africa's history seen from the viewpoint of its Afrikaner rulers.

Return of Bapu

Winning a Continent: HOLLIS: 008364349

Writer, Gustav S. Preller, silent, black & white, 1916, 60 min. Told from the Afrikaner point of view, this film is a re-creation of the historical events surrounding the emigration of the Dutch settlers into Zululand and their victory over Africans at the infamous battle of Blood River in 1838.

XWV 314 Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer. Madagascar, 1997. By Raymond Rajoanareivelo, 80 min. A film about a young man born during a solar eclipse who is thus "cursed" and thought to have great powers. He grows up isolated and searches for his place in the world. This film explores the relationship between ancestral beliefs and modern existential ideas of self. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 123 Quartier Mozart. Cameroon, 1992. By Jean-Pierre Bekolo. 80 min., in French with English subtitles. An affectionate celebration of African youth and the vibrant cultural pastiche it is continually inventing.

Race Against Time: The AIDS Crisis in Africa. Originally produced as a segment of the television series "The Nature of Things," 2003, 48 min. HOLLIS 009150226

Red Hat, Where Are You Going? By E. Adriaan Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, 2000. 47 min. An analysis of the socio-political position of traditional chiefs in Burkina Faso, examines the role of Mossi chiefs in the West African nation. Using interviews with chiefs and their critics, and archival footage, the film looks at how the chiefs have navigated political change, and at how they interact with both the government and people today. HOLLIS 008833278

XWV 247 A Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1894-1994. By Luc de Heush and Kathleen de Bethune, 1996, 60 min. Provides a historical background of the crisis in Rwanda.

Return to Belaye : A Rite of Passage. By Amy Flannery. Yellow Cat Productions. c2001, 80 min. Documentarian Flannery goes back to her husband's West African village to record his rite of passage into manhood. HOLLIS: 008815552

XWV 155 Rivers of Sand. Mali, 1991. By Bruno Sorrentino, 58 minutes. Dramatically illustrates the effects of 20 years of almost unbroken drought in Mali, among the world's poorest countries, and one man's efforts to bring relief to the barren wastes: United Nations aid worker Dresser Coulibaly has an ambitious plan to bring water back to the dried up Fagubine, using Mali's huge natural resource - the Niger River.

XWV 387 Rostov Luanda. By Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania/Angola, 1997. In Portuguese and French with English subtitles; 58 minutes. Sissako records his journey to war-torn Angola to find an old friend but really to recapture his own hopes for Africa. Angolan independence in 1975 represented for him a new beginning for Africa, when he and many young Africans went to the Soviet Union for political and technical training. The film confronts the disillusionment that resulted from intervening years of civil war backed by superpowers and other catastrophes that have plagued Africa.

XWV 189 Rouch in Reverse. UK/USA, 1995. Manthia Diawara, 52 minutes. The first film to look at European anthropology from an African perspective. Malian filmmaker and New York University professor Diawara's provocative new film examines the anthropological enterprise through the work of Jean Rouch, perhaps the most distinguished ethnographic filmmaker living today and one who made several early influential documentaries about West Africa.

XWV 248 Rwandan Nightmare. by Simon Gallimore. 1994, 43 min. Examines the political power struggle which led to the crisis in Rwanda.

XWV 372 Sango Malo. Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio; Cameroon 1991. In French with English subtitles, 93 minutes. A new high school teacher brings turmoil to a rural Cameroonian village when he tries to change the world. Although lines are clearly drawn between the two opposing positions on educational policy, the film is more than a morality tale on conflicting development models. The various characters emerge as complex, flawed human beings and their situations are both comical and tragic. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Sangoma: Traditional Healers in Modern Society. 54 min. Directed by Peter Davis. Shows how traditional medicine still thrives in South Africa. HOLLIS 008696610

XWV 129 Saraaba (Utopia). Senegal, 1988. By Amadou Seck. 86 min., in Wolof with English subtitles. Presents an unsparing indictment of a corrupt older generation and of alienated urban youth. Each character in this film is lost in a misguided search for saraaba, Wolof for utopia. Each, like post-independence Africa itself, comes close to disaster and disillusionment. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Searching for Hawa's Secret. Directed by Larry Krotz,1999, 47 min. Canadian scientist Frank Plummer discovered that a small group of sex workers in the Nairobi shanty-town seemed to be immune from HIV. He believed a vaccine for HIV might come from duplicating whatever it was that make this group of women immune. HOLLIS 009183704

Sept Nuits et Sept Jours (Seven Nights and Seven Days). By Maurice Dorès,1992, 58 min. This film documents an unusual healing ceremony in Senegal. The ceremony, called the Ndepp, is organized by the Lebou people to honor their ancestral spirits and to ask them to allow a cure to take place of one of their members. Performed over seven days and nights, it is a complicated ceremony with a precise set of rules and involves the whole community. HOLLIS 009150116

Shackles of Memory: The Atlantic Slave Trade. 1994, 55 min. From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New World. HOLLIS 009150121

Shouting Silent. South Africa, 2002, 51 min. Produced by Xoliswa Sithole, Directed by Renée Rosen. Xoliswa Sithole, an adult orphan who lost her mother to AIDS in 1996, explores the devastation wrought on the orphaned children of South Africa by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. HOLLIS: 008991988

Si-Gueriki (The Queen Mother). Benin, 63 min. 2002. Producer, director, Idrissou Mora Kpai, in Bariba and French with English subtitles. This documentary was intended as a tribute to the filmmaker's late father, a member of a royal family in northern Benin. But in the course of his investigations, the director discovers the lives of his mother and sisters, which had previously been invisible to him, and he decides to make a film about them instead. Si-Gueriki examines patriarchy and the role of women in a polygamous society. HOLLIS 009246078

Sidet: Forced Exile. 1991, 60 min. Written, produced, and directed by Salem Mekuria. Presents the stories of three Ethiopian women who each sought refuge in the Sudan. Tells how they have managed to survive displacement and create lives for themselves in exile. HOLLIS 009182320

Side by Side: Women Against AIDS in Zimbabwe. 1993, 50 min. Directed and produced by Peter Davis. Now, in the wake of the AIDS pandemic women also serve as care-givers to family and community members afflicted with HIV or AIDS.. In this film Zimbabwean women stand side by side mobilizing communities, educating people, and empowering women in the fight against AIDS. HOLLIS 008696619

XWV 291 Silent World. By Albert Wandago, Kenya, 1993. Describes the activities of the Kenya Society for Deaf Children founded in 1958. The Society is concerned with the education, health, and general welfare of deaf children and has been involved in the setting up of the 35 schools and units for deaf children in Kenya. It also sponsors technical and other courses which develop the skills of teachers, parents, and others who look after children who are hearing impaired.

Simon & I. South Africa, 2001, 52 min. Directed by Bev Palesa Ditsie and Nicky Newman. The film is part of the series, Steps for the Future, a collection of films presenting stories of individuals in Southern Africa coping with life in societies impacted by HIV/AIDS. HOLLIS 009182321

Sizwe Bansi is Dead. 60 min. This film of Athol Fugard's short play (done in collaboration with John Kani and Winston Ntshona).is a live performance of the play, originally staged in 1974. Because of apartheid the main character,Sizwe Bansi, can only gain work and survive by taking on a dead man's identity. The play is full of rage and pain, of the desperateness of men forced to make incredible choices about their lives. HOLLIS 002373961 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Sizwe Bansi Workshop: South Africa, 1983, 43 min. South African actor-writers Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona discuss and re-write the play "Sizwe Bansi is Dead." HOLLIS 009117070

XWV 52 South Africa 1990: The Year of Change. 1991, 37 min. A Broadcast International Production. HOLLIS 002287617

South Africa: The Apartheid Years. 196 min. 1998. Four documentaries by Peter Davis about the Apartheid era in South Africa. Contents: 1- South Africa, the White Laager (1977), 2- Generations of Resistance (1979), 3- Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid (1986), 4- Remember Mandela! (1988). HOLLIS 008696661

South Africa Belongs to Us. South Africa. Chris Austin. 1980, 35 min. This intimate portrait of five typical black South African women reveals the dehumanizing reality of life under apartheid. HOLLIS 008742530

South Africa, The Nuclear File. Produced by Peter Davis of Villon Films., 55 min. How South Africa acquired nuclear capability with help from Western friends. HOLLIS 008696643

South Africa: The Wasted Land.1990, 52 min. Documentary portrait of South Africa presents the waste of a land and people struggling against toxic wastes, asbestos poisoning, and air pollution. While the land held by white farmers is rich and highly productive, Blacks eke out a living from their degraded land or struggle as migrant farm workers or tenants under the Apartheid system. HOLLIS 009116828

Speaking Out: Women, AIDS, and Hope. Mali, 2002, 56 min. In French with English subtitles. Produced and directed by Joanne Burke. Profiles a remarkable HIV and AIDS support project in Bamako, Mali, and three brave women who work tirelessly on behalf of the infected community. HOLLIS 009182322

State of Denial. Directed and produced by Elaine Epstein. 83 min. South Africa is the country with the highest number of HIV positive people in the world. This video illustrates how they must fight not only the disease but the drug cartels and the inactivity of their own government to get treatment. HOLLIS: 009245908

Steps for the Future. Produced by Don Edkins, 2002. 25 videocassettes, Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. In English and multiple African languages with English subtitles. This unique collaboration between filmmakers from Southern Africa and broadcasters from the Northern countries looks at how individuals are coping and societies changing under the impact of HIV/AIDS. Attempts to demystify and destigmatise the disease and its sufferers. HOLLIS 009245923

1. Wa 'N Wina: 52 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmaker: Dumisani Phakathi, in English, Sotho and Zulu with English subtitles

2. Simon & I: 52 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmakers: Beverley Palesa, Ditsie and Nicky Newman, in Tswana and English with English subtitles

3. Looking for Busi: 52 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmaker: Robyn Hofmeyr, in English and Zulu with English subtitles

4. Body and Soul: 52 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmaker: Melody Emmett, in English, Sotho and Tswana with English subtitles

5. Night Stop: 52 minutes, 2002, Mozambique. Filmmaker: Licinio Azevedo, in Ndebele, Shona, Nhungwe, English, Portuguese with English subtitles

6. Dancing on the Edge: 42 minutes, 2001, Mozambique. Filmmakers: Karen Boswall, in Chuabo and Portuguese with English subtitles

7. A Miner's Tale: 40 minutes, 2001, Mozambique / South Africa. Filmmakers: Nic Hofmeyr and Gabriel Mondlane in Chope, Shangaan, Tswana with English subtitles

8. Mother to Child: 44 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmaker: Jane Thandi Lipman, in Xhosa and Zulu with English subtitles

9. Eclipse: 25 minutes, 2001, Mozambique. Filmmaker: Orlando Mesquita, in Xitswa with English subtitles

10. A Fighting Spirit: 28 minutes, 2001, Zimbabwe. Filmmaker: Leo Phiri, in Shona with English subtitles

11. Imiti Ikula: 26 minutes, 2001, Zambia. Filmmakers: Sampa Kangwa and Simon Wilkie, in Bemba and Nyanja with English subtitles

12. Love in a Time of Sickness: 26 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmaker: Khalo Matabane

13. A Red Ribbon Around My House: 26 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmaker: Portia Rankoane, in Afrikaans, English, Sotho and Zulu with English subtitles

14. A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues): 26 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmaker: Jack Lewis, in English and Xhosa with English subtitles

15. Heavy Traffic: 28 minutes, 2001, South Africa. Filmmaker: Kgomotso Matsunyane, in Sotho, Zulu and English with English subtitles

16. House of Love: 26 minutes, 2001, Namibia. Filmmaker: Cecil Moller, in Afrikaans with English subtitles

17. Master Positive and Not Afraid: 15 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette, 2001, Namibia. Filmmakers: Kelly Kowalski and Carla Hoffman, in English and Nama with English subtitles

18. Guilty and The Moment: 23 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette, 2001, South Africa. Filmmakers: Francois Verster and Siyabonga Makhatini, in Afrikaans, English and Zulu with English subtitles

19. Dreams of a Good Life and Gotta Give: 20 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette, 2001, South Africa. Filmmakers: Bridget Pickering and Eddie Edwards

20. Ndodii and Big Balls: 17 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette, 2001, Zimbabwe. Filmmakers: Farai Matambidzanwa and Heeten Bhagat, in English and Shona with English subtitles

21. Ho Ea Rona and Tsoga: 25 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette, 2002, Lesotho / South Africa. Filmmakers: Dumisani Phakathi, Sesoth Media and Sechaba Ramotoai, in English, Sotho and Zulu with English subtitles

22. Let's Talk About It and Dispel Your Attitudes: 16 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette, 2001, South Africa. Filmmakers: Sithunyiwe Gece and Lizo Kalipa, in Xhosa with English subtitles

23. That's Me and Choose Life: 11 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette, 2001, Mozambique / Zimbabwe. Filmmakers: Sasha Wales-Smith and Dorothy Brislin Ntone, in English and Xitswa with English subtitles

24. The Ball and The Sky in Her Eyes: 16 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette, 2001, Mozambique / South Africa. Filmmakers: Orlando Mesquita, Ouida Smit and Madoda Ncayiyana, in Ximanica and Zulu with English subtitles

25. True Friends: 21 minutes, 3 titles on 1 cassette, 2002, Mozambique. Filmmaker: Bert Sonnenschein, in Portuguese with English subtitles

Strange Beliefs. 1990, 52 min. Written and produced by Bruce Dakowski. Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard was the first trained anthropologist to do work in Africa, where he lived among the Azande and studied their belief in witchcraft. HOLLIS 009227967

XWV 309 Taafe Fanga. Mali, 1997. By Adama Drabo, 95 min. A gender-bending farce set among the 18th century Dogon which makes some serious points about the status of women in Africa today. Through the intervention of spirits, the two genders exchange traditional roles. A prize winner at the 1997 Pan African Film Festival (FESPACO). Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 313 Tableau Ferraille: Senegal, 1997. By Moussa Sene Absa, 85 min. The story of the rise and fall of an idealistic young politican who must choose in both his public and private life between traditional communitarian or modern individualistic values. His two wives represent each position. The film features a soundtrack of contemporary Senegalese music and acting by musical star Ismael. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 122 Ta Dona (Fire!). Mali, 1991. By Adama Drabo. 100 min., in Bambara with English subtitles. Hailed as Africa's first environmental feature film. The story of a quest for secret kowledge by a young hero, a modern agronomist working for the Ministry of Rivers and Forests. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 278 Taxi to Timbuktu. Produced and directed by Christopher Walker. (50 min.) 1994. Follows men from Mali, among the poorest nations in the world, who seek work in New York, Paris, and Tokyo.

XWV 137 These Hands. Tanzania, 1992. By Flora M'mbugu-Schelling. 45 min., in Swahili and Kimakonde with English subtitles. A non-traditional documentary about Mozambican women refugees working in a quarry outside Dar Es Salaam. This quiet tribute to women at the bottom of the international order deepens into a meditation on the global mechanism of social, ideological and economic reproduction.

XWV 139 Three Tales from Senegal. Le Franc by Djibril Diop Mambety. 1994, 45 min. Picc Mi (Little Bird) by Mansour Sora Wade. 1992, 20 min. Fary l'Anesse by Mansour Sora Wade. 1989, 17 min. All in Wolof with English subtitles. The three Senegalese shorts in this brief film anthology adapt the ancient African storytelling tradition to a modern medium and setting. These cinematic fables encapsulate the basic beliefs which support ordinary Africans as they try to navigate a rapidly changing world. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

Thunderbolt. Nigeria. Tunde Kelani. 2000, 110 min. In English. This story of suspected infidelity, curses and ritual purification, of modern science and traditional wisdom, is an outstanding example of the burgeoning video industry of Nigeria. HOLLIS 008742540 Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 407 Tilaï (The Law). Burkina Faso, 1990. By Idrissa Ouedraogo. 81 min., in Mooré with English subtitles. This tale of forbidden love, honor and revenge follows the tragic story of Saga, who returns to his village after a long absence. He finds that his young fiancée, Nogma, has been married off to his father. Furious, but with no recourse, Saga realizes he still loves Nogma, who was forced into her new marriage. Their new secret affair is deemed incestuous by the village, so they flee in hopes of living outside the reach of the law. Murder, lust and betrayal follow the lovers at every turn. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 124 Touki Bouki (The Journey of the Hyena). Senegal, 1973. By Djibril Diop Mambety. 85 min., in Wolof with English subtitles. One of the path-breaking films of early African cinema. Touki Bouki introduced into African film the theme of searching for authentic values in a "modernizing" Africa. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 264 Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A special report done at the beginning of the hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It explains the working of the Commission and uses brief excerpts of painful and graphic testimony before the Commission to illustrate its mandate. The video ends with a short excerpt from a speech by Justice Albie Sachs, the anti-apartheid activist, explaining why the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was necessary for the future of South Africa.

HXBV4Y Two Trevors Go To Washington. By Ben Cashdan. 2000. 34 min. An incisive and entertaining account of the April 16, 2000 International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings and protests in Washington, D.C. as experienced through the eyes of two opposing South Africans, both veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle, who differ strongly on economic issues. On the inside is South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, the champion of South Africa's conservative economic policy introduced in 1996. On the streets: Johannesburg activist Trevor Ngwane who joined the protestors in the streets to call for immediate debt forgiveness and the closure of the international financial institutions.

XWV 143 Udju Azul Di Yonta (The Blue Eyes of Yonta). Guinea-Bissau, 1991. By Flora Gomes, 90 min., in Criolo with English subtitles. One of the few recent African films to make the disillusionment of the revolutionary generation its primary subject and offer a glimmer of hope for the future. This film can be seen as a continuation of Gomes' first feature film, Mortu Nega, which commemorates Guinea-Bissau's arduous independence struggle. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 320 Ushirika ni Umoja (Sharing is Unity). Kenya, 1996. By Ron Mulvihill. 23 minutes, in Kiswahili with English subtitles. Explores the rural life and feelings of the Itseo people of Kenya. The African sense of community is experienced through their daily activities. The Itseo's spirit of sharing and reciprocal giving exemplify the values which contribute to the unity and survival of communitites in Africa. (On the same videotape as Arusi ya Mariamu - The Marriage of Mariamu.)

Au Village, Une École.:1996, 28 min. By Marie-Lou de Burette and Françoise Fabre. A documentary on schools in small villages in Mali, which are supported by remittances from villagers residing and working abroad. There is a depiction of the village life in Mali. HOLLIS 008934251

Visions of Africa: Three silent films showing white presentations of Africa and Africans. Villon Films, 2001. HOLLIS 008781308

The Zulu's Heart D.W. Griffith, 1908

Rastus in Zululand Sigmund Lubin, 1910

A Kaffir's Gratitude David Horsly, 1916

XWV 297 Waiting. By Marie-Claude Harvey. A documentary on the desperate plight of the Dinka people in the town of Alek in the southern Sudan. As a result of the civil war, they experience famine and are the targets of frequent attacks. This film focuses on an attempt to distribute food aid to starving people which is halted for a week because there are too few aid workers.

XWV 417 A Walk in the Night (Nagstappie). South Africa, 1998. By Mickey Madoda Dube. 78 minutes In English and Afrikaans with English subtitles. One of the first films from a new generation of talented young black South African filmmakers who have become active since the overthrow of apartheid. Dube's debut feature adapts Alex La Guma's celebrated 1962 novella of the same name into a fast-paced crime thriller set in present day Johannesburg. It recounts a single terrible night when the fragile world of Mikey Adonis, a young Coloured steel worker, disintegrates. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 128 Wend Kuuni (God's Gift). By Gaston Kaboré, Burkina Faso, 1982. 70 min. in Mooré with English subtitles. A landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to "return to the sources" of their culture, to recover a "usable" African past to solve the problems of the African present. Kaboré retells the ancient fable about a mute orphan who is driven from his homeland, to be renamed "Wend Kuuni" (God's Gift) by the grateful village who adopts him. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 446 White City, Black Lives. South Africa, 1997. By Teboho Mahlatsi, 57 min. Five residents of White City, a neighborhood in Soweto, were trained how to use small videocameras, so that they could tell the story of their own lives, in their own way, to represent themselves to their fellow citizens, and the world.

White Gold: Dam Building in Lesotho and the Political Economy of Water. 2001, 32 min. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project is supposed to provide water to thirsty consumers in Gauteng - but people have started to question the largest dam project in Africa. HOLLIS 008797721

XWV 739 White Hotel. By Dianne Griffin & Tobi Salvang, 1998. 90 min. A documentary about AIDS in Eritrea in which the filmmakers, two American women, themselves become a part of the story.

William Kentridge: Drawing the Passing. South Africa, 1999. Written and directed by Maria Anna Tappeiner, Reinhard Wulf. Kentridge discusses the creative process of making his animated films, drawings, and theatre work. Shows him in the final stages of animating "Stereoscope" and includes excepts from various works. In his artistic works he has investigated the diseased, amnesiac consciousness of late and post-apartheid South Africa. HOLLIS 009139489

XWV 374 Woubi Cheri. By Philip Brooks & Laurent Bocahut, France/ Ivory Coast, 1998. 62 min., in French with English sub-titles. This documentary introduces us to a cross-section of Abidjan's woubi community, gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a distinct African homosexuality.

XWV 191 Women, Water, and Workload. Kenya, 1994. By Jane Murago-Munene. 14 minutes. Produced by Cine Arts Productions for UNICEF, Kenya Country Office.

XWV 243 Women of the Sahel. By Paolo Quaregna & Souleyma Mahamone, Niger, 1995, 52 min. Examines the economic role of women in the informal economy of Niger.

XWV 281 Women's Agenda. Kenya/Uganda. By Donnie Yambo-Odotte. 1995, 60 min. Traces the progress towards women's equality and empowerment in the home, in education, and in health care

XWV 477 Wonders of the African World. Written and presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1999. BBC and PBS. 3 videos; 360 min. Prof. Gates takes viewers on a journey to discover a wealth of African history and culture. He travels from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search of the lost wonders of the African world. Also in Hilles and Lamont Libraries. The six episodes are

• Black Kingdoms of the Nile-Nubia
• The Swahili Coast of Kenya and Tanzania
• The Slave Kingdoms of West Africa
• The Holy Land- Ethiopia
• The Road to Timbuktu- ancient West African kingdoms
• Lost Cities of the South- Mapungubwe in South Africa and Great Zimbabwe

XWV 125 Yeelen (Brightness). Mali, 1987. By Souleymane Cissé. 105 min., in Bambara with English subtitles. Set during the powerful Mali empire of the 13th century, this film may remind viewers of 2001: Space Odyssey. But in Cisse's distinctly African version of "science fiction" time is circular so the future also inevitably lies in the distant past. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

XWV 136 You, Africa! Senegal, 1993. By Ndiouga Moctar Ba. 43 min., in Wolof and French with English subtitles. Records the path-breaking tour of nine West African nations by legendary Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour - a fascinating African variation on the familiar superstar "tour" film.

You Have Struck a Rock! South Africa. Deborah May. 1981, 28 min. This film commemorates the special contribution of South African women to the success of the anti-apartheid struggle. It recovers the "women's campaigns" of the 1950s against the hated pass system. HOLLIS 008742547

XWV 246 Zaire, The Cycle of the Serpent. By Thierry Michel. 1992, 58 min. Chronicles life in Kinshasa, revealing the disparities in its social fabric.

XWV 233 Zan Boko. By Gaston Kabore. Burkina Faso, 1988. 94 min. A rural family's world is brutally disrupted when their ancestral village is absorbed by the expanding urban boundaries of their country's largest city. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

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DT 20.A37 1984x Africa By Basil Davidson. 1984. 4 videos(114 min each). An eight part television series. Two parts on each cassette.

(Part 1) - Different But Equal. Describes how some of the world's greatest early civilizations had their origins in the heart of black Africa and discusses some of their artistic, technical and scientific achievements.

(Part 2) - Mastering a Continent. Looks at two important developments in early African society,the growth of cattle keeping and agriculture. Focuses on the activities of three communities, the Pokot in Northern Kenya, Sukor in Nigeria and the Dogon of Mali.

(Part 3) - Caravans of Gold. Traces the trade routes which stretched from Africa to Asia and southern Europe long before the arrival of the white man in Africa. The coming of the Portuguese in 1498 marked the beginning of the collapse of these trading networks and the demise of the great civilizations which they supported.

(Part 4) - The King and the City. Explores the structure of medieval African kingdoms and visits Kano in Nigeria, where a king still holds court in his 15th century palace, and ancient rituals continue to command the respect of the people.

(Part 5) - The Bible and the Gun. Looks at the impact on African society of three different groups; slave traders, missionaries and colonialists.

(Part 6) - This Magnificent African Cake. Traces the major developments of African history between the 1800's and 1945. Looks at the different ways colonial rule was established and the emergence of nationalist movements, focusing on Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, andMozambique.

(Part 7) - The Rise of Nationalism. Follows the course of the major independence strugglesbeginning with the situation in the Gold Coast and concluding with the fight for majority rule in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

(Part 8) - The Legacy. Explores the problems and successes of the African states in the aftermath of colonial rule. Includes interviews with several African statesmen.

M 1830 .E45 I7 1997x An African Dance Celebration: 1997, 90 min. Twenty years after its fabulous opening in Johannesburg, South Africa, Ipi Ntombi is back in an updated, slick extravaganza of dance and music that blends the traditional and modern heartbeat of Africa.

M1831.A84 A88 1964x Atumpan, the Talking Drums of Ghana. Institute of Ethnomusicology and African Studies Center, UCLA; School of Music and Drama, University of Ghana; filmed and recorded by Mantle Hood, 1964, 43 min. Documentary about Ashanti ceremonial drums. Explains the different uses for each drum and who may use them as well as showing how they are made. Also shown are some of the performed to the beat of the drums.

DT1058.S36 B58 1986x Bitter Melons. Lorna Marshall, John Marshall, 1986, 30 min. Portrays the difficulty of survival in the central Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. The musician Ukxone, a member of a group called the /Gwi, performs songs about animals, the land, and the social life. Describes the life of the /Gwi, including traditional music, dances, children's games, and hunting, planting, and food preparation. Also in Loeb Music Library and Tozzer.

JQ 3529.A15 C44 1999 Chef! (Chief!). La Tete Dans Les Nuages (Head in the Clouds): Cameroon, 1999 and 1994. By Jean-Marie Teno. In French with English subtitles; 96 minutes. These two provocative documentaries are searching critiques of the political and economic stagnation besetting many African states. However, Teno also introduces the grassroots forces in civil society and the informal economy which could point the way towards vigorous democratic development in Africa. In Chef!, Teno locates the roots of Africa's authoritarian regimes in the patriarchal family, reinforced by traditional kingship and the colonial experience. In La tête dans les Nuages he investigates the ties between unaccountable government and an unproductive economy.

M1831.C56.C56 1980x The Chopi Timbila Dance. Produced by Gei Zantzinger, directed by Andrew Tracey, Penn. State University, c. 1980, 39 min. An analytical film on the Chopi music of Mozambique, one big orchestral sounds and men's dance of Africa. The timbila orchestra consists of variously-sized xylophones. Venancio Mbande and the Timbila of Wildebeesfontein Mine, Bophuthatswana.

PN1997.C48 1990x Chocolat. Cameroon, 1989, by Claire Denis, 105 min. in French with English subtitles. A memoir of life in colonial Africa in the 1950's, seen through the eyes of a young Frenchwoman who has returned to Cameroon to trace her past. Remembered childhood scenes reveal an undercurrent of tension threatening to explode as an assortment of Europeans with little past and less future pass through their sun-baked outpost.

PN1997 .C79 1992x Cry, the Beloved Country: 1992, 100 min. Screenplay adaptation by Alan Paton ; directed by Zolton Korda. Adapted from Alan Paton's novel by the same name. This is a story of two men, two fathers, one black, one white, drawn together through one father's search for a lost son, in apartheid South Africa.

M1831.G3 D36 1988x Dance Like a River: Odadaa! Drumming and Dancing in the U. S. Directed by Barry Dornfeld and Tom Rankin, Oboade Institute of African Culture, c. 1985, 45 min. Shows the dance styles and several performances of Odadaa!, a Ga dance company from Ghana, West Africa. Includes interviews with several members of the company and discusses efforts to preserve the cultural heritage of Ghana.

ML 3503.E84 E84 1999x Ethiopia: BBC Videos for Education & Training, 1999, 59 min. Originally made for the BBC television program, Under African Skies. Features the music of Ethiopia, traditional and contemporary. Includes live performances using traditional instruments.

PN 1997.V45 1995x Faces of women. Ivory Coast, by Desire Ecare. 103 min. 1985. In French and indigenous languages with English subtitles. Politically and stylistically adventurous two-part explores the links between feminism, economics, and tradition in contemporary Africa. Also in Lamont LIbrary. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

PN 995.9.C55 G64 1987x The Gods must be crazy. Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Nixau, Louw Verwey. Playhouse Video, 1987.

M1630.18.S549 G7 1987x Graceland, the African concert. Paul Simon, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Warner Reprise Video, c1987. Recorded live at Rufaro Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe.

PN 1997 .H946 1997x Hyenas: Senegal, 1992. By Djibril Diop Mambety. 113 min, in Wolof with English subtitles. An adaptation of a timeless parable of human greed into a biting satire of today's Africa- betraying the hopes of independence for the false promises of Western materialism. An old woman returns to her native village after she becomes rich and seeks revenge against the lover of her youth. Eventually she turns the village into a notorious black market, catering to the pleasure of the consumer society. Theatrical film by African filmmaker.

ML 3760.J832 1996x The JVC Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa: 1996, 156 min. Presents ethnic music from Africa. Most segments are short. Includes folk music, folk songs, performances on traditional musical instruments, dances, and religious or ritual performances.

M1831.M36 J35 1992x Jali Nyama Suso: Kora Player of the Gambia. Produced by Roderic Knight, 1992 (20 min). This performance of four songs from the Mandinka repertory was recorded while Suso was teaching kora at the University of Washington in 1971. Sung in Mandingo. Accompanying booklet by Roderic Knight includes background information and translations of text.

DT 763.M35 1986x Maids and Madams: South Africa, 1986, 52 min. Produced by Christian Wrangler, Directed and Written by Mira Hamermesh. Describes how harshly apartheid affects the daily life of women in South Africa and focuses on the relationship between black women household workers and white employers. Reveals employment conditions, contracts and salaries, and shows how the workers organized SADWA (South African Domestic Workers' Association) to improve conditions and wages. Through the efforts of white employment agencies and white-sponsored Centers of Concern there is movement to consider the needs and rights of oppressed domestics, helping them overcome loneliness and the lack of social and educational facilities. Despite pockets of improvement, the status quo remains.

ML3503.M35 M35 1997x Mali: The Music of Life. 1997, 60 min. Features the music of Mali, where every musician is a poet who uses a fusion of traditional Mandika style and modern rhythm and blues to tell a story. From rural villages to modern night clubs, from folk songs to sophisticated African jazz, all of the music is discusses as an extension of traditional Mali rhythms, melodies, and themes. Two prominent women singers discuss their careers.

LD 2177 .M36 1998x Mandela at Harvard: The Historic Convocation, September 18, 1998. 1998, 98 min. Published by the Harvard University Events & Information Center.