The African Studies Collection
The African Studies Collection includes the following titles:
Examines the East African Rift, Ethiopia's Afar Triangle, the Nile Valley and the Dead Sea Rift, places where the Earth's crust is ripping apart as molten rock pushes upwards.
Filmmaker Ike Bertels' portrait of three women veterans of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) offers an intimate view of Mozambique's history since its 1975 independence.
Documents the work done, and difficulties faced, by international aid workers in the Congo.
An unprecedented feat in African history: the dictator of Chad, Hissein Habre, was brought to trial.
In Rwanda, in 1994, Hutu militia committed a bloody genocide, murdering one million Tutsis. Many of the Tutsi women were spared, only to be held captive and repeatedly raped. Many became pregnant. These are their stories.
Follows HIV-positive South African activist Zackie Achmat, who refuses to take life-saving anti-retroviral drugs until they are made available by the government.
A playful film that finds three African men performing an ethnography of their own culture.
Kigali Shaolin Temple is a kung-fu club in Rwanda started by a group of orphans from the genocide.
Kingsley's Crossing is the story of one man's dream to leave the poverty of life in Africa for the promised land of Europe. We walk in his shoes, as photojournalist Olivier Jobard accompanies Kingsley on his uncertain and perilous journey.
A profile of the Kitambo maternity clinic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing the pressures of economic forces on health care delivery in poor countries.
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