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Black Israel (Videocassette : 88 min. ) [2003]
V.CASS. VHS 8514
Abstract: Documentary presents scenarios of Africans and African Americans who live in the Jewish communities of Israel, and are Jewish by birth or by conversion. The positive and the negative ways in which people are affected by their heritage makes for a vibrant portrait of pluralistic 21st century Jewish identities.
Director: Maurice Dorès Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Israel, diaspora, Jews, race
Black Man's Land Trilogy (Videocassette : 156 min. ) [1986]
Abstract: Three films on colonialism, nationalism and revolution in Kenya: White Man's Country; Mau Mau; and Kenyatta. See individual titles for description.
Director: David Koff, Anthony Howarth Distributor:NA
Keywords: Kenya, history, settler colonialism, Mau Mau, Jomo Kenyatta, nationalism, politics
Black Man's Land Trilogy (DVD : 156 min. ) [1986]
Abstract: Three-part series of films consisting of White Man's Country (part 1), Mau Mau (part 2) and Kenyatta (part 3); all of the films combine period photographs and contemporary location footage with the testimony of African and European witnesses. The trilogy covers the violence of colonial rule, white settlement and African resistance in the story of Kenya, as the British tried to make it a 'white man's country' like South Africa or New Zealand. Land was allocated, settlers welcomed, and the 'jewel of the British empire' was born. But it was African land that was taken, African labor that was used to develop it, and African taxes that kept the colonial regime solvent. How did Africans confront this process? White Man's Country tells this story. Mau Mau traces the history of the state of emergency declared by the British Colonial government of Kenya in 1952 in an attempt to subdue the movement among black Kenyans for political and civil rights. Kenyatta offers a biographical account of Jomo Kenyatta, the man who became Kenya's national leader and who eventually led the movement to establish an independent government.
Director: David Koff, Anthony Howarth Distributor:Facets Multimedia
Keywords: Kenya, history, settler colonialism, land, history, politics
Born Slave (DVD : 52 min. ) [2004]
DVD 8215
Abstract: It is shocking to see that slavery still exists in contemporary Mauritania, even though it is outlawed on the books since 1981. It is estimated that there are 100,000 people enslaved there. This remarkable documentary, shot secretly by the production team disguised as tourists, provides the outside world's first look at this human rights abuse. The child of a slave woman belongs to her master. From the time it can walk, it is put to work and can also be given away to others. In the film we meet sixteen-year-old Bilal who was only two when his mother escaped and left him with his master. He finally ran away and found his mother in the slums of the capital. They describe their lives as mistreated and humiliated unpaid workers, explaining that the masters often use religion to frighten their slaves into submission. Boubacar Messaoud, leader of the organization SOS Slave, gives us the historical and sociological background of slavery.
Director: Helen Aastrup-Samuels and Bo Harringer Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Mauritania, slavery, human rights, labor
Kenyatta (Videocassette : 52 min. ) [1979]
V.CASS. VHS 8855/ DVD 9267
Abstract: Jomo Kenyatta's death in 1978 brought to an end a political career that encompassed more than 50 years of African history. Kenyatta entered politics in the mid-1920s and then spent 17 years in exile in Europe. He returned to Kenya in 1946, and in 1947 took over leadership of the Kenya African Union. Arrested and imprisoned in 1952 in the wake of the mau mau uprising, he was released in 1961 and two years later became Kenya's first Prime Minister. In power, the man whom Europeans had once reviled as 'the leader to darkness and death' was eulogized by them as a pillar of stability. This film weaves archival and contemporary images with interviews with friends and relatives, comrades and opponents to create a biographical portrait of a key figure in 20th century politics, and a case study of nationalism as a political force in Africa. Also available in DVD format (DVD 9267). This film is part 3 of the Black Man's Land trilogy; see also White Man's Country (part 1) and Mau Mau (part 2).
Director: David Koff, Anthony Howarth Distributor:Bellwether Group
Keywords: Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, history, settler colonialism, politics, nationalism, biography
Kenyatta (Video Disc/Laser Vision : 52 min. ) [1973]
DVD 9267/ VHS 8855
Abstract: Jomo Kenyatta's death in 1978 brought to an end a political career that encompassed more than 50 years of African history. Kenyatta entered politics in the mid-1920s and then spent 17 years in exile in Europe. He returned to Kenya in 1946, and in 1947 took over leadership of the Kenya African Union. Arrested and imprisoned in 1952 in the wake of the mau mau uprising, he was released in 1961 and two years later became Kenya's first Prime Minister. In power, the man whom Europeans had once reviled as 'the leader to darkness and death' was eulogized by them as a pillar of stability. This film weaves archival and contemporary images with interviews with friends and relatives, comrades and opponents to create a biographical portrait of a key figure in 20th century politics, and a case study of nationalism as a political force in Africa. Also available in videocassette format (VHS 8855). This film is part 3 of the Black Man's Land trilogy; see also White Man's Country (part 1) and Mau Mau (part 2).
Director: Anthony Howarth and David Koff Distributor:Cinemagician Productions
Keywords: Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, politics, history, biography, colonialism, nationalism
Kitchen Toto (The) (Video Disc/Laser Vision : 96 min. ) [1987]
V. DISC 1515
Abstract: Set in 1950 Kenya as British rule was being threatened by Mau Mau terrorists. A young Kikuyu boy is torn between the British for whom he works and the guerrilla freedom fighters who want him to join them. Complex and powerful story of the Kenyan freedom crusade. Director/Author: Harry Hook.
Director: Harry Hook Distributor:Warner Home Video
Keywords: Kenya, colonialism, history, Mau Mau, feature film
Mau Mau (Video Disc/Laser Vision : 52 min. ) [1973]
DVD 9266
Abstract: In October 1952 the British government declared a State of Emergency in Kenya in order to defeat Mau Mau. In the war that followed, fewer than 40 of 40,000 white settlers were killed while more than 15,000 Africans lost their lives and hundreds of thousands more were arrested and subjected to a humiliating and often brutal process of 'rehabilitation.' Mau Mau traces the history of the state of emergency declared by the British Colonial government of Kenya in 1952 in an attempt to subdue the movement among black Kenyans for political and civil rights. Reveals the secret society known as Mau Mau to have been an attempt by the white minority to discredit the rising tide of black nationalism. Using newsreel and previously inaccessible archive footage, and drawing on interviews with participants on both sides, this film examines the myth and reality of Africa's first modern guerrilla war. This film is part 2 of the Black Man's Land trilogy; see also White Man's Country (part 1) and Kenyatta (part 3).
Director: David Koff, Anthony Howarth Distributor:NA
Keywords: Kenya, Mau Mau, history, colonialism, politics, settlers, nationalism, violence, war
Mauritania: The Vanishing Oasis (DVD : 57 min. ) [1993]
DVD 9001
Abstract: Beautifully photographed, this film introduces us to a couple, Baba and his wife Fatou, and their two children who live in a tiny oasis at the outskirts of Chinguetti, once a holy city of Islam. Ninety percent of Mauritania is desert, which encroaches a little every day upon the remaining arable land. Barely twenty years ago, eighty percent of Mauritania's population was nomadic. Today, only twelve percent can maintain the nomadic life. Fatou had grown up in a nomadic family and struggles with her new sedentary life. The family lives as best it can by protecting their date trees, which are constantly threatened by the ravages of sand. Drinking sweet tea to assuage their own hunger, they aim to keep their baby daughter plump so she can be married off at age seven. This is a memorable portrait of human beings surviving despite the forces of nature that buffet them.
Director: Louise Racicot Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Mauritania, economy, family, environment
Rostov-Luanda (Videocassette : 60 min. ) [1997]
V. CASS. VHS 4628
Abstract: Mauritanian director Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don and there became friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the director's search for a friend of the past. In this personal retrospective, Sissako encounters present-day Angola and traces the great lines of Africa's recent history.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Distributor:California Newsreel
Keywords: Angola, Mauritania, history, civil war, politics, social life
Sept Nuits et Sept Jours = Seven Nights and Seven Days (Videocassette : 48 min. ) [1992]
V. CASS VHS 7527
Abstract: This film documents a 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, in this case a mother who refuses to care for her newborn. Performed over seven days and nights, it is a complicated ceremony with a precise set of rules and involves the whole community.
Director: Maurice Dorès Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Senegal, Lebou, healing, medicine, ritual, religion
Simba (Videocassette : 99 min. ) [2005]
V.CASS. VHS 9082
Abstract: Filmed in documentary style partly in Kenya, Simba tells the story of a young Englishman's brother who has been murdered by Mau Mau terrorists. He, however, overcomes his hatred of blacks after a native physician sacrifices his life to prevent the massacre of a group of white colonists. A Peter de Sarigny production, this feature film originally released as a motion picture in 1955, with a screenplay by John Baines . This drama has also been released under the title of Mark of Mau Mau.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst Distributor:General Film Distributors (U.K.) and Lippert Pictures (U.S.)
Keywords: Kenya, Mau Mau, drama, history, terrorism, murder, settler colonialism, feature film
They Carry Their Families: A Village in Mauritania (DVD : 14 min. ) [1999]
DVD 8972
Abstract: Life in a rural village in Mauritania is hard on women. Tradition and Islamic religion are intertwined to reinforce strict gender roles. The husband is the protector and keeper; his word is law. While the men take their ease, the girls and women are off to the fields during the peanut planting and harvest season, walking five miles each way, and coming home with heavy burdens from the fields to prepare the family dinner. They carry the water, sweep the yard, wash the clothes, and care for the children. This short, beautifully filmed video captures succinctly the subservience of women, while at the same time remaining respectful of tradition and culture. There are no drugs, alcohol or loneliness in this kind of community, where family bonds are very strong. We hear from several young Peace Corps workers in the village who are hopeful that by educating and thereby widening the horizons of young women, eventually women will have more choices. From a Western perspective, the future of Africa depends on education and family planning.
Director: Ingo A. Zamperoni Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Mauritania, women, gender, religion, family, work, education
To Be a Woman in Burkina Faso (Videocassette : 14 min. ) [1992]
V. CASS. VHS 2188
Abstract: The lot of women in Burkina Faso is not an easy one. A look into the lives of women who must work in the fields in addition to the duties of childcare, home care and cooking, and the women working in the city's factories who are hardly better off. The future, women feel, will be better only when women are better educated, have the same job opportunities as men and have their own reasonable source of income.
Director: Maurice Kabore Distributor:Films for the Humanities
Keywords: Burkina Faso, women, economy
White Man's Country (Video Disc/Laser Vision : 52 min. ) [1973]
DVD 9265
Abstract: The first in a three-part series that traces Kenya's history from colonialism to independence, this film deals with the arrival of the first European settlers towards the end of the 19th century and explains how, over a period of time, the African inhabitants were deprived of much of their land. It charts the actions of the Imperial British East Africa Company and uses quotes from both official letters and private journals to reveal the motives of those who sought to make Kenya a white man's country. It also recalls the treatment the Africans received at the hands of their colonial masters and discusses the founding of the first political protest movement, led by Harry Thuku, who is one of the individuals interviewed and whose funeral in 1970 opens and closes the film. The documentary makes good use of a rare collection of photographs of the period. This film is part 1 of the Black Man's Land trilogy; see also Mau Mau (part 2) and Kenyatta (part 3).
Director: Anthony Howarth, David Koff Distributor:Cinemagician Productions
Keywords: Kenya, politics, history, colonialism, land
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Black Israel (Videocassette : 88 min. ) [2003]
V.CASS. VHS 8514
Abstract: Documentary presents scenarios of Africans and African Americans who live in the Jewish communities of Israel, and are Jewish by birth or by conversion. The positive and the negative ways in which people are affected by their heritage makes for a vibrant portrait of pluralistic 21st century Jewish identities.
Director: Maurice Dorès Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Israel, diaspora, Jews, race
Black Man's Land Trilogy (Videocassette : 156 min. ) [1986]
Abstract: Three films on colonialism, nationalism and revolution in Kenya: White Man's Country; Mau Mau; and Kenyatta. See individual titles for description.
Director: David Koff, Anthony Howarth Distributor:NA
Keywords: Kenya, history, settler colonialism, Mau Mau, Jomo Kenyatta, nationalism, politics
Black Man's Land Trilogy (DVD : 156 min. ) [1986]
Abstract: Three-part series of films consisting of White Man's Country (part 1), Mau Mau (part 2) and Kenyatta (part 3); all of the films combine period photographs and contemporary location footage with the testimony of African and European witnesses. The trilogy covers the violence of colonial rule, white settlement and African resistance in the story of Kenya, as the British tried to make it a 'white man's country' like South Africa or New Zealand. Land was allocated, settlers welcomed, and the 'jewel of the British empire' was born. But it was African land that was taken, African labor that was used to develop it, and African taxes that kept the colonial regime solvent. How did Africans confront this process? White Man's Country tells this story. Mau Mau traces the history of the state of emergency declared by the British Colonial government of Kenya in 1952 in an attempt to subdue the movement among black Kenyans for political and civil rights. Kenyatta offers a biographical account of Jomo Kenyatta, the man who became Kenya's national leader and who eventually led the movement to establish an independent government.
Director: David Koff, Anthony Howarth Distributor:Facets Multimedia
Keywords: Kenya, history, settler colonialism, land, history, politics
Born Slave (DVD : 52 min. ) [2004]
DVD 8215
Abstract: It is shocking to see that slavery still exists in contemporary Mauritania, even though it is outlawed on the books since 1981. It is estimated that there are 100,000 people enslaved there. This remarkable documentary, shot secretly by the production team disguised as tourists, provides the outside world's first look at this human rights abuse. The child of a slave woman belongs to her master. From the time it can walk, it is put to work and can also be given away to others. In the film we meet sixteen-year-old Bilal who was only two when his mother escaped and left him with his master. He finally ran away and found his mother in the slums of the capital. They describe their lives as mistreated and humiliated unpaid workers, explaining that the masters often use religion to frighten their slaves into submission. Boubacar Messaoud, leader of the organization SOS Slave, gives us the historical and sociological background of slavery.
Director: Helen Aastrup-Samuels and Bo Harringer Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Mauritania, slavery, human rights, labor
Kenyatta (Videocassette : 52 min. ) [1979]
V.CASS. VHS 8855/ DVD 9267
Abstract: Jomo Kenyatta's death in 1978 brought to an end a political career that encompassed more than 50 years of African history. Kenyatta entered politics in the mid-1920s and then spent 17 years in exile in Europe. He returned to Kenya in 1946, and in 1947 took over leadership of the Kenya African Union. Arrested and imprisoned in 1952 in the wake of the mau mau uprising, he was released in 1961 and two years later became Kenya's first Prime Minister. In power, the man whom Europeans had once reviled as 'the leader to darkness and death' was eulogized by them as a pillar of stability. This film weaves archival and contemporary images with interviews with friends and relatives, comrades and opponents to create a biographical portrait of a key figure in 20th century politics, and a case study of nationalism as a political force in Africa. Also available in DVD format (DVD 9267). This film is part 3 of the Black Man's Land trilogy; see also White Man's Country (part 1) and Mau Mau (part 2).
Director: David Koff, Anthony Howarth Distributor:Bellwether Group
Keywords: Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, history, settler colonialism, politics, nationalism, biography
Kenyatta (Video Disc/Laser Vision : 52 min. ) [1973]
DVD 9267/ VHS 8855
Abstract: Jomo Kenyatta's death in 1978 brought to an end a political career that encompassed more than 50 years of African history. Kenyatta entered politics in the mid-1920s and then spent 17 years in exile in Europe. He returned to Kenya in 1946, and in 1947 took over leadership of the Kenya African Union. Arrested and imprisoned in 1952 in the wake of the mau mau uprising, he was released in 1961 and two years later became Kenya's first Prime Minister. In power, the man whom Europeans had once reviled as 'the leader to darkness and death' was eulogized by them as a pillar of stability. This film weaves archival and contemporary images with interviews with friends and relatives, comrades and opponents to create a biographical portrait of a key figure in 20th century politics, and a case study of nationalism as a political force in Africa. Also available in videocassette format (VHS 8855). This film is part 3 of the Black Man's Land trilogy; see also White Man's Country (part 1) and Mau Mau (part 2).
Director: Anthony Howarth and David Koff Distributor:Cinemagician Productions
Keywords: Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, politics, history, biography, colonialism, nationalism
Kitchen Toto (The) (Video Disc/Laser Vision : 96 min. ) [1987]
V. DISC 1515
Abstract: Set in 1950 Kenya as British rule was being threatened by Mau Mau terrorists. A young Kikuyu boy is torn between the British for whom he works and the guerrilla freedom fighters who want him to join them. Complex and powerful story of the Kenyan freedom crusade. Director/Author: Harry Hook.
Director: Harry Hook Distributor:Warner Home Video
Keywords: Kenya, colonialism, history, Mau Mau, feature film
Mau Mau (Video Disc/Laser Vision : 52 min. ) [1973]
DVD 9266
Abstract: In October 1952 the British government declared a State of Emergency in Kenya in order to defeat Mau Mau. In the war that followed, fewer than 40 of 40,000 white settlers were killed while more than 15,000 Africans lost their lives and hundreds of thousands more were arrested and subjected to a humiliating and often brutal process of 'rehabilitation.' Mau Mau traces the history of the state of emergency declared by the British Colonial government of Kenya in 1952 in an attempt to subdue the movement among black Kenyans for political and civil rights. Reveals the secret society known as Mau Mau to have been an attempt by the white minority to discredit the rising tide of black nationalism. Using newsreel and previously inaccessible archive footage, and drawing on interviews with participants on both sides, this film examines the myth and reality of Africa's first modern guerrilla war. This film is part 2 of the Black Man's Land trilogy; see also White Man's Country (part 1) and Kenyatta (part 3).
Director: David Koff, Anthony Howarth Distributor:NA
Keywords: Kenya, Mau Mau, history, colonialism, politics, settlers, nationalism, violence, war
Mauritania: The Vanishing Oasis (DVD : 57 min. ) [1993]
DVD 9001
Abstract: Beautifully photographed, this film introduces us to a couple, Baba and his wife Fatou, and their two children who live in a tiny oasis at the outskirts of Chinguetti, once a holy city of Islam. Ninety percent of Mauritania is desert, which encroaches a little every day upon the remaining arable land. Barely twenty years ago, eighty percent of Mauritania's population was nomadic. Today, only twelve percent can maintain the nomadic life. Fatou had grown up in a nomadic family and struggles with her new sedentary life. The family lives as best it can by protecting their date trees, which are constantly threatened by the ravages of sand. Drinking sweet tea to assuage their own hunger, they aim to keep their baby daughter plump so she can be married off at age seven. This is a memorable portrait of human beings surviving despite the forces of nature that buffet them.
Director: Louise Racicot Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Mauritania, economy, family, environment
Rostov-Luanda (Videocassette : 60 min. ) [1997]
V. CASS. VHS 4628
Abstract: Mauritanian director Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don and there became friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the director's search for a friend of the past. In this personal retrospective, Sissako encounters present-day Angola and traces the great lines of Africa's recent history.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Distributor:California Newsreel
Keywords: Angola, Mauritania, history, civil war, politics, social life
Sept Nuits et Sept Jours = Seven Nights and Seven Days (Videocassette : 48 min. ) [1992]
V. CASS VHS 7527
Abstract: This film documents a 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, in this case a mother who refuses to care for her newborn. Performed over seven days and nights, it is a complicated ceremony with a precise set of rules and involves the whole community.
Director: Maurice Dorès Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Senegal, Lebou, healing, medicine, ritual, religion
Simba (Videocassette : 99 min. ) [2005]
V.CASS. VHS 9082
Abstract: Filmed in documentary style partly in Kenya, Simba tells the story of a young Englishman's brother who has been murdered by Mau Mau terrorists. He, however, overcomes his hatred of blacks after a native physician sacrifices his life to prevent the massacre of a group of white colonists. A Peter de Sarigny production, this feature film originally released as a motion picture in 1955, with a screenplay by John Baines . This drama has also been released under the title of Mark of Mau Mau.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst Distributor:General Film Distributors (U.K.) and Lippert Pictures (U.S.)
Keywords: Kenya, Mau Mau, drama, history, terrorism, murder, settler colonialism, feature film
They Carry Their Families: A Village in Mauritania (DVD : 14 min. ) [1999]
DVD 8972
Abstract: Life in a rural village in Mauritania is hard on women. Tradition and Islamic religion are intertwined to reinforce strict gender roles. The husband is the protector and keeper; his word is law. While the men take their ease, the girls and women are off to the fields during the peanut planting and harvest season, walking five miles each way, and coming home with heavy burdens from the fields to prepare the family dinner. They carry the water, sweep the yard, wash the clothes, and care for the children. This short, beautifully filmed video captures succinctly the subservience of women, while at the same time remaining respectful of tradition and culture. There are no drugs, alcohol or loneliness in this kind of community, where family bonds are very strong. We hear from several young Peace Corps workers in the village who are hopeful that by educating and thereby widening the horizons of young women, eventually women will have more choices. From a Western perspective, the future of Africa depends on education and family planning.
Director: Ingo A. Zamperoni Distributor:Filmakers Library
Keywords: Mauritania, women, gender, religion, family, work, education
To Be a Woman in Burkina Faso (Videocassette : 14 min. ) [1992]
V. CASS. VHS 2188
Abstract: The lot of women in Burkina Faso is not an easy one. A look into the lives of women who must work in the fields in addition to the duties of childcare, home care and cooking, and the women working in the city's factories who are hardly better off. The future, women feel, will be better only when women are better educated, have the same job opportunities as men and have their own reasonable source of income.
Director: Maurice Kabore Distributor:Films for the Humanities
Keywords: Burkina Faso, women, economy
White Man's Country (Video Disc/Laser Vision : 52 min. ) [1973]
DVD 9265
Abstract: The first in a three-part series that traces Kenya's history from colonialism to independence, this film deals with the arrival of the first European settlers towards the end of the 19th century and explains how, over a period of time, the African inhabitants were deprived of much of their land. It charts the actions of the Imperial British East Africa Company and uses quotes from both official letters and private journals to reveal the motives of those who sought to make Kenya a white man's country. It also recalls the treatment the Africans received at the hands of their colonial masters and discusses the founding of the first political protest movement, led by Harry Thuku, who is one of the individuals interviewed and whose funeral in 1970 opens and closes the film. The documentary makes good use of a rare collection of photographs of the period. This film is part 1 of the Black Man's Land trilogy; see also Mau Mau (part 2) and Kenyatta (part 3).
Director: Anthony Howarth, David Koff Distributor:Cinemagician Productions
Keywords: Kenya, politics, history, colonialism, land
September 16, 2008: Geoffrey Nyarota
