An indepth history of Nigeria.

Kumbukumbu ya miaka 16 tangu kufariki mwalimu Julius Nyerere ikimuonyesha mwalimu akiongea na waandishi wa habari hoteli ya Kilimanjaro akizungumzia nyufa za muungano, ukabila, rushwa na udini.

This mondo-style documentary was shot by American filmmakers during a voyage to the African wilderness, and offers a glimpse of life in the vanishing primitive tribes. However, the film prefers to focus on the more exploitable elements of life among the indigenous cultures, such as a real life witch doctor performing brain surgery without anesthetic, group mating rituals, blood drinking, the slaughter of animals, human sacrifice and other examples of sex and violence in the "Dark Continent." Kwaheri was released in the United States by exploitation kingpin Kroger Babb, who billed it as "the film that stretches your eyes."

(2015) WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE. Documentary featuring an emerging strain of anger among some prominent African-American activists and intellectuals during the civil rights movement.
“Blood In My Eye,” produced by Louis Bourgeois of Vox Press of Oxford, and filmmaker Mykki Newton intersperses scenes from the movement in the 1960s with the provocative language of Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther leader who wrote “Soul On Ice,” novelist and essayist James Baldwin, the author of “The Fire Next Time,” and other black writers.
RUNTIME: 61 MINUTES

In an investigative report, Black Journal delves into the political, economic, and social development of Kenya and Tanzania since their independence.

From the CD: Black Ivory Soul

"Open your eyes, ears and hearts and surrender to the sights and sounds of Africa."

Great song from a great African woman, set to the pictures of a great African civilization - The people of the Surma and Mursi tribes.

Tribal Decoration of the Omo Valley - Pictures by: Hans Silvester (Africa on Lens)

The people of the Surma and Mursi tribes live in the Omo Valley of Southern Ethiopia are body painters: they paint their bodies with pigments made from the earth as an immemorial and quotidian practice mothers paint babies, children and adults paint themselves and each other in a tradition that seems unchanged for thousands of years. Their paintings range from abstract designs of circles, lines, dots and swirls, sometimes focused on specific body parts, to all-over patterns of flowers, zig-zags and fingerprints that form a dazzling array on the entire body. White, yellow, orange and ochre; the natural pigments that they use are derived from the soil and rocks of their surroundings. The tribes daily paintings are an essential expression of their lives more elemental to them than music or dance. Fascinated by the Surma and Mursi tribes painting practices and astounded by the beauty of their ephemeral art.

Silvester captures the diverse and extraordinary effects that they achieve through their ancient tradition.

Source Malborough Gallery

Nelson Mandela commencement speaker at Southern University A & M College Baton Rouge [2000]

⁣Hauwa yarfulani Basavca

This film examines the history of Africa and Ancient Africans.

Made with the direct participation of Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this work of political cinema offers an intense, incendiary vision of black revolution across America. A forgotten masterpiece from radical filmmaker, theorist and founder of Cinéma Éngagé, Édouard de Laurot.

Suppressed in its initial release within the USA, the film went on to attain international recognition both as an artistic triumph and
as a work of authentic political acuity and power.

First Prize, Venice International Film Festival
Third World Film Festival, Paris:
Special Honours as the "First Authentic Underground Film from the USA"
First Prize, Black Film Festival, Chicago, USA
Awarded and honored around the world
from Africa to Australia, from Russia to Latin America.

Screened on the BBC, the CBC (Canada),
and other international television networks.

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