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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the moment that white colonizers stepped onto the shore of Southern Africa, there was black resistance. This resistance continued unabated until apartheid was defeated. But the story of this resistance was suppressed and distorted because whites controlled the history books. This documentary was an attempt to give back to the black people of South Africa their lost history, a history of heroic struggle. Directed by: Peter Davis.
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors series. African literature volume TWAS 881
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Nadine Gordimer.
9) Tabu
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Winner of Critic's Prize at the Berlin Film Festival 2012, Tabu is the exquisitely surreal two-part tale of Aurora, who upon her death-bed will make a mysterious request to see a man no one had ever heard of, transporting us to the foothills of 1960s Africa in order to tell a story that occurred fifty years ago - the story of an irrational taboo and its extravagant consequences. Shot in lush black and white 16mm and 35mm.
10) History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration: Episode 20,Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
First, consider how the most famous PR stunt in the history of exploration--journalist Henry Stanley finding ailing Scottish explorer Dr. Livingstone in a remote town in Africa--reveals how Africa long remained the "Dark Continent" to the outside world. Then, turn to Mary Kingsley, an Englishwoman whose writing revealed West Africa to a European audience.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Almost from the beginning of cinema, filmmakers have looked at the continent of Africa with a mixture of fear and fascination, prejudice and contempt. South Africa, with its fabulous mineral wealth, exotic locations, and white settlers, attracted scores of movie makers. Now, when the era of white rule has ended, In darkest Hollywood asks: What was the role of cinema during the 45 year reign of apartheid? Through a mosaic of feature, documentary, and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
African Independence is an award winning, feature-length documentary covering the epic story of the most important events to happen on the African continent since enslavement and colonization by Europeans. The film highlights the birth, realization, and problems confronted by the movement to win independence in Africa. The story is told by channeling the voices of freedom fighters and leaders who achieved independence, liberty and justice for African...
13) Barracoon
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
14) Ezra
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. It was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du Cinema de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Africa's largest and most prestigious film event, and was selected for the International Critics Week at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Ezra stands out among other African films because it is a complex...
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