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3. Title List

This is an overview of all the videos listed in alphabetical order. Variant titles and translations of foreign language titles are offered in parentheses.

• A l’Ombre du Soleil: Funérailles et Intronisation du Hogon d’Arou (In the Shadow of the Sun – Im Schatten der Sonne)
• A-OK?
• An act of faith: the Phelophepa health trains
• Adama - the Fulani magician
• Adventure unlimited
• Africa
• Africa, Africas
• Africa, continent that overslept
• Africa dreaming
• Africa I remember: a musical synthesis of two cultures
• Africa: open for business
• Africa project
• Africa, search for common ground
• Africa sings
• African art in motion
• African culture: drumming & dance
• African dance & percussion
• An African dance celebration
• African dance: sand, drum and Shostakovich (Sand, drum and Shostakovich)
• African guitar
• African Jim
• The African queen
• An African recovery
• African religions and ritual dances
• African religions: Zulu Zion
• Africans in America
• Afrique, je te plumerai (Africa, I’m going to fleece you)
• Afro@Digital
• AIDS in Africa
• Aimé Césaire: une voix pour l’histoire (A voice for history)
• Ainsi meurent les anges (And so angels die)
• Alan Paton’s beloved country
• Allah Tantou, a la grace de Dieu (Allah Tantou, God’s will be done)
• Al'lèèsi - an African actress
• Almodou
• Amandla!: a revolution in four part harmony
• Ambush in Mogadishu
• And still I rise
• Angano. . . Angano: nouvelles de Madagascar (Tales of Madagascar)
• The angel returns (Changing the tradition of female circumcision)
• Angola é a Nossa Terra (Angola is our country)
• Angola's future doctors
• Anteranaw
• Any child is my child
• Apartheid gold and reparations
• The architect and the old village
• Arlit, deuxième Paris (Arlit, the second Paris)
• The Art of the Dogon
• Arusi ya Mariamu (The marriage of Mariamu)
• Asante market women
• Association for the physically disabled of Kenya
• Asylum
• Atlantico Negro: na rota dos Orixás (Black Atlantic: on the Orixás route)
• Atumpan, the talking drums of Ghana
• Au village, une école
• A Bamako les femmes sont belles
• Banguza Timbila
• Batouka 86
• Beau travail
• Belonging
• Benjamin and his Brother
• Between Joyce and remembrance
• Beyond the plains
• The big debate
• Bitter melons
• Black and white in color (Noirs et blancs en couleur)
• Black gold (Wake up and smell the coffee)
• Black man’s land: images of colonialism and independence in Kenya
• Blaze Africa
• Blood & sand: war in the Sahara
• Blood diamond
• The Blooms of Banjeli: technology and gender in African ironmaking
• The body beautiful
• Bomas, Kenya's constitutional review (Bomas CKRC)
• Bon voyage & Aventure Malgache
• Bopha! Arrest
• Boran women
• Born into struggle
• Born slave
• Bosnia Hotel
• Brenda Fassie
• Bringing justice home
• Bruly Bouabré's alphabet
• Building a nation: Malawi youth pioneers set the pace
• Building peace
• Buschmanner in der Kalahari, 1907-1909 (Bushmen in the Kalahari, 1907-1909)
• Bushman's secret: one cactus stands between hope and hunger
• Bye bye Africa
• Ça twiste à Popenguine (Rocking Popenguine)
• Camp de Thiaroye (Camp Thiaroye)
• Casa de lava (Down to earth)
• Ceddo
• Chai: eighteen months of life
• Challenges of the millenium
• Chameleon
• Chameleon 2
• Changing paths (Een dorpstraject; La route d'un village)
• Chansons de maternité adioukrou
• Chatsworth: struggle for shelter
• Chef! (Chief!) and La tete dans les nuages (Chief! Head in the clouds)
• Chepokawat
• Chikin biznis: the whole story
• Child brides
• A child's century of war
• Children of Africa: music concert
• Children of the revolution
• Children of war
• Chocolat
• Choosing exile
• The Chopi Timbila dance
• Christine, lawyer in the slums
• Chronicle of a genocide foretold
• Chronicle of a savanna marriage
• Chuck Davis: dancing through West Africa
• Cinema in Senegal
• City of dreams
• Clando (Clandestine)
• Coffee colored children
• The coffee-go-round
• Colobane express
• Colonial cinema: films from Central Africa 1940’s-1960’s
• The Color of gold
• Comedia infantil (Nelio's story)
• Community based rehabilitation: for persons with disabilities in Embu Diocese
• Condoms, fish & circus tricks
• Connections between the Nyakyusa and the Nkonde from the viewpoint of dance and trade: with video data of dance
• Consequences
• The constant gardener
• Consuming hunger
• A costa dos murmúrios
• The cost of living
• Countdown to freedom: 10 days that changed South Africa (Ten days that changed South Africa)
• The Cow jumped over the moon
• The cows of Dolo Ken Paye: resolving conflict among the Kpelle
• Crossroads
• Cry, the beloved country
• Cultivating opportunity
• The cultural music of the people and church of eastern Africa
• Diary of a Maasai village
• Dakan
• Dance in Africa
• Dance like a river: Odadaa!
• Dance of the Bella
• Dances of southern Africa
• Dancing
• The dancing church of Kenya: jubilee 2000
• Dancing out of tune: a history of the media in Zimbabwe
• Daresalam
• The Day I will never forget
• De feuille et de terre (Of leaves and of earth: traditional tribal architecture of the Cameroon)
• Dead mums don't cry
• The Deadline
• Deadly myths
• A Decade of AIDS
• A la découverte de l'ile Maurice
• Deep hearts
• Delta force
• Les Derniers colons (Last Colonials)
• The Desired number
• Destination Cameroon
• Destination Lesotho
• Destination Senegal
• Devil takes the youngest
• Diamonds and rust
• Dignity: African women in crisis
• Dimbulka
• Diro and his talking musical bow
• Disability is not inability: disability through the eyes of Anthony Muriithi
• Divine carcasse
• Djabote
• Djembefola: the man who makes a Djembe speak
• Dodoth morning
• Dokwaza: last of the African iron masters
• Dole (Money)
• Dolly & the inkspots
• Domba, 1956-1958: A personal record of Venda initiation rites, songs & dances
• Domestic differences
• Donka: X-ray of an African hospital
• The donor circus
• The draft constitution: what they haven't told Wanjiku
• A Dream come true for the Ethiopian Jews
• Drowning in oil
• The Drums of Dagbon
• Ebola war: the nurses of Gulu
• Educating Lucia
• Een dorpstraject (Changing paths; La route d'un village)
• Efunsetan Aniwura: Iyalode of Ibadan
• The Emperor's birthday
• Enkishon: the Maasai child in Kenya
• Entangled
• Equatorial Guinea: drowning in oil? (Drowning in oil)
• Eritrea: after peace falls rain
• Ethiopia
• Ethiopia, the hidden empire
• Ethiopian policemen train in Israel
• Ethiopiques
• Everyone’s child
• Everything must come to light
• Extra bitter: the legacy of the Chocolate Islands
• Ezra
• Faat Kine
• Falasha: exile of the Black Jews
• The Falashas
• Fang: an epic journey
• Faraw!: une mere des sables (Farawi: mother of the dunes)
• Father
• Fela in concert
• Fela live: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Egypt 80 Band
• Female circumcision: human rites
• Femmes aux yeux ouverts (Women with open eyes)
• Femmes du Niger: entre integrisme et democratie (Women of Niger: between fundamentalism and democracy)
• Fighting for rights, pre-poll 2002 Zimbabwe before the elections
• Fighting poverty together: the core challenges
• Fintar o destino (Dribbling fate)
• Finzan (Rebellion; Dance for the Heroes)
• Fire eyes (Female circumcision)
• First run (Integrated rural development programme for women, Ethiopia)
• Fishers of Dar
• Flame
• Flip-flotsam
• Food distribution in Zimbabwe
• For love of neighbour
• Forbidden fruit
• The Forbidden land
• Forgiveness
• Forgotten children: the legacy of poverty and AIDS in Africa
• Forsaken cries: the story of Rwanda
• La Fournaise: un volcan dans la mer
• Frantz Fanon: black skin, white mask
• Fraud and corruption: a growing concern in Zimbabwe
• From Congo to Zaire
• Future remembrance: photography and image arts in Ghana
• Gacaca: living together again in Rwanda?
• Gelede: a Yoruba masquerade
• Genesis (La genèse)
• Gerrie & Louise
• The gift of sight
• Girls around the world
• Gito l’ingrat (Gito the ungrateful)
• Give me a shilling: phenomenon of the street children
• Globalisation and Africa: which side are we on?
• God sleeps in Rwanda
• The Gods must be crazy
• Goldwidows: women in Lesotho
• Graceland, the African concert
• Le grand Blanc de Lambaréné (The Great White Man of Lambarene)
• Great great great grandparents’ music
• A great wonder
• Grenzenlos
• Guelwaar
• Guguletu ballet
• The Guguletu seven
• Guimba: un tyran, une époque (Guimba, The Tyrant)
• Hado
• The Hadza
• Hamar trilogy
• Hartseer land (My Beloved Country)
• Hausar Baka: “Gani ya kori ji”
• Have you heard from Johannesburg?: apartheid and the club of the west
• Hawa (Violence against women)
• Healers of Ghana
• Heart and stone: the life and times of Govan Mbeki
• O Herói
• Hidah: masa'le-erets ha-Falashim
• Hip-hop colony (African hip-hop explosion)
• Home away from home
• Homeless at home
• Hot wax
• Hotel Rwanda
• The Human race
• The hunters
• Hyenas (Hyènes)
• I have a problem, Madam
• Ikhaya
• Ile de la Réunion: le pays du grand spectacle
• Imperfect journey
• Inagina: l’ultime maison du fer (The Last House of Iron)
• In a time of violence
• In and out of Africa
• In Danku the soup is sweeter
• In darkest Hollywood: cinema and Apartheid
• In the name of God (In the name of God: helping circumcised women – Helping circumcised women)
• In the shadow of the sun (A l'ombre du soleil: funérailles et intronisation du Hogon d'Arou; Im Schatten der Sonne)
• In the wake of wars
• Innocence under siege: healing a scarred generation
• Ipi Ntombi: an African dance celebration
• It's my life
• It's too late! just give me a chance to live
• It’s up to us
• It's up to you and me: a song for peace in Africa
• Jaguar
• Jali Nyama Suso: kora player of the Gambia
• Jean Rouch
• Jews in distant lands: the Falashas of Ethiopia
• A joking relationship
• Jit
• Juju music!
• The JVC Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of Africa
• The JVC video anthology of world music and dance
• J'y crois: la route de la décentralisation au Mali (I believe in it)
• Kafi’s story and Nuba conversations
• A Kalahari family
• Karmen Gei
• Karoo kitaar blues
• Keeping a live voice: 15 years of democracy in Zimbabwe
• Keïta!: l’héritage du griot (Keïta!: The Heritage of the Griot)
• Kenya, gem of Africa
• Kenya women pioneers
• Kenyatta University, muziki wetu
• Khalfan and Zanzibar
• Konkombe: Nigerian music
• Kosodo: the village of grandmothers
• Kounandi
• Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the stars
• Kuxa kanema: the birth of cinema
• Lagos/Koolhaas
• Lake side (Lakeside)
• The Language you cry in
• The last king of Scotland
• The last salt caravan (Mali: the last salt caravan - Mali: the salt caravan - Salt caravan)
• The Last warriors
• The Lesser child
• Liberation women
• Liberia: a fragile peace
• Liberia: America's stepchild
• Liberia: an uncivil war
• Liberia: the promised land
• The Life and times of Sara Baartman
• Life must continue
• Lighting a peace candle for Masol, West Pokot District
• Lines in the dust
• Língua: vidas em português
• Listen to the silence
• Lives together, worlds apart: men and women in a time of change
• Living memory: six sketches of Mali today
• Lobola
• Long night’s journey into day
• The long tears - an Ndebele story (Ndebele story)
• Loran's way: a Turkana man
• Lost boys of Sudan
• The lost generation: everyone's problem
• Lou waay def (Whatever one does
• Lumumba
• Lumumba: La mort du prophète (Lumumba: the Death of the Prophet – Lumumba, Death of a Prophet)
• The Maasai and agents of change
• Madagascar: a world apart
• Magogo ka Dinuzulu
• Mahaleo
• Maids and madams
• Main Reef Road
• Les maitres fous (Mad masters)
• Mali & Senegal: the power of Islam (Africa in the 21st century)
• Mali: the music of life
• Malooned
• Mama Awethu!
• Mama Benz, an African market woman
• Mama Benz & the taste of money
• Mama Wahunzi: women blacksmiths
• Man, God and Africa (Man, God & Africa)
• The man who stole my mother's face
• Mandabi (The Money Order)
• Mandela at Harvard: the historic convocation, September 18, 1998
• Mandela: son of Africa, father of a nation
• Mandiani drum & dance from Senegal
• Mapantsula (Hustler)
• Mar'ot (Mirrots)
• Marriage of Mariamu (Arusi ya Mariamu; Sharing is unity; Ushirika ni umoja)
• The martyrs of Uganda: Fires of hope
• Masai manhood
• Masai: les guerriers de la pluie (The rain warriors)
• Masks of the Bwa people of Burkina Faso (Masks of the Bwa people of Boni; Masks of leaves and wood: the Bwa people of Burkina Faso )
• Master Harold and the boys
• Masters of the balafon: funeral festivities
• Matamata and Pilipili
• Mauritania, the vanishing oasis
• Mbeni: dance of the Akamba
• Mbira Dza Vadzimu: Dambatsoko, an old cult centre
• Mbira Dza Vadzimu: religion at the family level
• Mbira Dza Vadzimu: urban and rural ceremonies
• Mbira Matepe Dza Mhondoro: a healing party
• Mbira Music: spirit of the people
• Mbira Njari: Karanga songs in christian ceremonies
• Mbira: the technique of the Mbira Dza Vadzimu
• The meaning of the buffalo
• Medicine made by God: the spiritual and herbal healing ministry of Brother Anatoli Wasswa
• Meha-tokol le-karavan: aliyat ha-Palshmurah
• La memoire dure
• Les mémoires de Binduté Da
• Metamo
• Miziké Mama
• Mobutu, king of Zaire: an African tragedy
• Moko jumbie: dancing spirit
• Mon coeur est témoin (My heart is my witness)
• Monday’s girls
• The moon in my pocket
• More time
• Mortu Nega (Those whom death refused)
• Mozambique - the struggle for survival
• Music of the Mande
• Mwe Bana Bandi
• My mother built this house
• My Vote Makes the Difference
• Mysteries of Mankind
• N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
• Nabantwa Bam' ( With my children)
• Nadine Gordimer: A Portrait
• Nagstappie: A Walk in the Night
• Naked Spaces: Living is Round
• Naliaka is going
• Namibia - No Easy Road to Freedom
• National parks: do they have a place in conservation strategies for the 21st century?
• Nawi
• Ndeysaan: Le prix du pardon (The Price of forgiveness)
• Neria
• Never the Same Again: Zimbabwe’s Growth Towards Democracy
• The 1973 Mgodo wa Mbanguzi
• The 1973 Mgodo wa Mkandeni
• Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa)
• La noire de- and Borom Sarret
• Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and white in color)
• Nuba Conversations
• The Nuer
• La nuit de la verité (The night of truth)
• Nyamakuta: the one who receives
• The odds against us-- but there's hope
• On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps To Freedom
• 100 days (One hundred days)
• Opening of Ghana flying school
• Opération Moïse: l'incroyable histoire de l'exode des juifs Éthiopiens
• Ordinary people: A Day with the President
• Origins: The Southern Evidence
• Our Friends at the Bank
• Out in South Africa
• Out of Africa
• Pain, passion, and profit
• Passing girl, riverside: an essay on camera work
• Patient Abuse: South Africa’s Struggle for AIDS Treatment
• Pattern of life
• Peaceful Co-existence
• Perspectives on Violence
• La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun)
• Phela-ndaba: apartheid in South Africa 1970 (End of the dialogue)
• Pièces d’Identités (Identity Pieces)
• Please, do not kill me
• Politics Do Not a Banquet Make
• Portrait of Altinè in the dry season
• Poverty eradication
• Power of darkness: is there devil worship in Kenya?
• The president of the Malagasy Republic in Israel
• Prime Time South Africa
• Le prix du pardon (Ndeysaan, Price of forgiveness)
• Promised land: a report
• Prophet Healers of Northern Malawi
• Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer (When the Stars Meet the Sea)
• Quartier Mozart
• Queen Latifah presents Mama Africa (Mama Africa)
• Race Against Time: The AIDS Crisis in Africa
• Reassemblage
• Red Hat, Where Are You Going?
• Regopstaan's dream
• Remnants of a Race
• Remote access: distant libraries of the world
• Repercussions: A Celebration of African-American Music
• A Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1894-1994
• The return of Sara Baartman
• Return to Belaye: A Rite of Passage
• Returning dreams
• Rhythm of Resistance: The Black Music of South Africa
• The Right to choose
• Rights of passage: four stories of survival
• River journeys. The Congo
• Rivers of Sand
• Rivers of Sand
• Roots of Rhythm
• Rostov Luanda
• Rouch in Reverse
• La route d'un village (Changing paths; Een dorpstraject)
• Rwanda: how history can lead to genocide
• Rwandan Nightmare
• Saikati
• Saikati, the Enkabaani
• Samora Machel: son of Africa
• The sand dams of Kitui-- where there is no water
• Sango Malo
• Sangoma: Traditional Healers in Modern Society
• Saraaba (Utopia)
• School's out
• Science wages war on hunger: modifying Africa through biotechnology
• Scratch, mix and-- ?
• Searching for Hawa’s Secret
• Selbe: one among many (as women see it)
• Senegal: the power to change (Combatting female genital mutilation)
• Sept Nuits et Sept Jours (Seven Nights and Seven Days)
• Servants of love
• Shackles of Memory: The Atlantic Slave Trade
• Shadow company
• Shaliah u-shemo Zimnah (Emissary named Zimna)
• Shelah et ami u-maher
• Shouting Silent
• Sia: le rêve du python (The dream of the python)
• Side by Side: Women Against AIDS in Zimbabwe
• Sidet: Forced Exile
• Sierra Leone's refugee all stars
• Si-Gueriki la reine-mère (Queen Mother)
• The silent crisis
• The silent world
• Simbi nyaima
• Simon & I
• Sipho Hotstix Mabuse
• Sisters in law
• Sizwe Bansi is Dead
• Sizwe Bansi Workshop
• Skin deep
• Solel Boneh overseas
• Somalia: the neglected civil war (Africa in the 21st century)
• A son of Africa
• Song of Africa
• SongoLoLo: Voices of Change
• Songs of the Adventurers
• Songs of the Badius
• The Soul eaters
• The Sorious Samura collection: Cry Freetown, Exodus, Return to Freetown
• South Africa 1990: The Year of Change
• South Africa Belongs to Us
• South Africa, The Nuclear File
• South Africa: The Apartheid Years
• South Africa: The Wasted Land
• South African Propaganda Films of the Apartheid Era
• A South African farm
• Sowing seeds of hunger
• Speaking of Nairobi: Forum ’85
• Speaking Out: Women, AIDS, and Hope
• The spectre of hope
• The Speeches of Nelson Mandela
• Sphere project: an introduction to humanitarian challenges
• A spirit here today: a scrapbook of Chopi village music
• Spirits of Defiance: the Mangbetu People of Zaïre
• Stage-Shakers! Ghana’s Concert Party Theatre
• State of Denial
• The state visit to Africa of His Excellency the President of Israel and Mrs. Ben-Zvi: July 29th - August 7th 1962
• Steps for the Future
• Story of a beautiful country
• Strange Beliefs
• Sudan: the harsher face of Islam (Sudan: slipping back in time - Harsher face of Islam)
• Ta Dona (Fire!)
• Taafe Fanga
• Taarab, an ocean of melodies (Ocean of melodies)
• Tableau Ferraille
• Tahal (water planning): the company and its activities
• Tass Yakarr
• Taxi to Timbuktu
• Tekatai: the Ethiopian story continues
• O Testamento Do Sr. Napumoceno (Napumoceno’s will)
• That our children will not die
• These girls are missing (Gender gap in Africa’s schools)
• These Hands
• They carry their families (They carry their families: a village in Mauritania)
• Thomas Sankara
• Thomas Sankara: the upright man
• Three Tales from Senegal
• Thunderbolt
• Tikur belese
• Tilaï
• Today the hawk takes one chick
• To Live With Herds
• Toro si te
• Touki Bouki (Journey of the Hyena)
• The tree of our forefathers
• Triumph of Evil
• Trokosi: (wife of the Gods)
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a special report
• Tsamako: the first ethnographic cinema
• Tsotsi (Thug)
• Tubabs in Africa
• Twelve disciples of Nelson Mandela
• Two dollars with or without a condom
• Two Trevors Go To Washington
• L'UEJF au Rwanda
• Udju Azul Di Yonta (Blue Eyes of Yonta)
• Uganda: The War of the Children
• Umgidi (The Celebration)
• Under African Skies
• Under the Men’s Tree
• Under the volcano (Under vulkanen)
• Unfinished exodus
• Urban Ecology
• Ushirika ni Umoja (Sharing is Unity) and Arusi ya Mariamu (The marriage of Mariamu)
• Vessels of the Spirits: Pots and People in North Cameroon
• La Vie Est Belle (Life is rosy)
• La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth)
• A Village is Waiting
• The village woman
• Visions of Africa
• Voices from Robben Island
• Waiting
• Warrior marks
• The Wasp Nest
• Water for Tonoumassé
• A way to move on: women's savings associations in Dakar
• A Week of sweet water
• Wend Kuuni (Le don de Dieu)
• White City, Black Lives
• White Gold: Dam Building in Lesotho and the Political Economy of Water
• White Hotel: a documentary
• White king, red rubber, black death
• Whom do I turn to?
• A wife among wives: notes on Turkana marriage
• William Kentridge: Drawing the Passing
• Winning a Continent
• Witchcraft among the Azande
• With these hands: how women feed Africa
• Wives of Poor People, Wives of Rich People: Stories from Contemporary Zaïre
• Women of Niger: Between Fundamentalism and Democracy (Femmes du Niger: Entre Integrisme et Democratie)
• Women of the Sahel
• Women of Zimbabwe
• Women’s Agenda
• The Women’s Olamal: The Organisation of a Maasai Fertility Ceremony
• Women, Water, and Workload
• Wonders of the African World
• World Wise Schools presents Destination: Lesotho
• Woubi Cheri
• Wutenqet
• Xala (Curse)
• Yaa Asantewaa: the last Anglo-Asante war of 1900
• Yakatamacn yaakababi huneta kayat wadet?
• Yaebrit kemr bahebrat kendacn sinad
• Yaounde-Jerusalem
• Yatawaqiwu demsawi Yahabtamikael Damse
• Yeelen (Brightness)
• Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency
• You Have Struck a Rock!
• You, Africa!
• Young wives' tales
• Youth voices: on eradication of female genital mutilation
• Yvonne Chaka Chaka
• Zaire, The Cycle of the Serpent
• Zan Boko (Homeland)
• Zimbabwe After the Elections: Post-Poll 2002
• Zimbabwe & South Africa: still far from coexistence (Africa in the 21st century)
• Zulu