Important African Studies Multimedia & Video

Academic Video Online
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Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
Digitized collection of more than 3500 images and 50 hours of sounds from throughout Africa, emphasizing images of artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, and relig...   [more]
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African Independence
- from Kanopy
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African Origins
Database of names of African slaves freed from slaving vessels in early 19th century. Provides audiorecordings of names as pronounced by Spanish speakers with Havana accents to assist African auditors...   [more]
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Art and Life in Africa Project
Broad collection of images, texts, and sound recordings on art in Africa, particularly West Africa. Includes the University of Iowa Museum of Art's Stanley Collection of African Art database of digita...   [more]
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Black Studies in Video
- from Alexander Street Press
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Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
Catalog with selected videostreaming of films showing images of life in the British colonies. Covers British Film Institute, Imperial War Museum, British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, and Birckbeck Un...   [more]
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Ethnographic Video Online
Also Known as: Ethnographic Video Online
- from Alexander Street Press
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Supplemental URLs
    Ethnographic Video Online, Vols. I & II: Foundational Films
    Ethnographic Video Online, Vols. I & II: Foundational Films
    Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. III: Indigenous Voices

Genocide Archive Rwanda
Videos, digital images, and document reproductions from archival collections in Rwanda, focusing on the 1994 genocide. Includes videos and transcripts of remembrance events and conference events, Gaca...   [more]
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International Monetary Fund Videos
Short films made by the International Monetary Fund about finance and economics around the globe....   [more]

IRINnews.org
Also Known as: Integrated Regional Information Networks
UN-sponsored news service focusing on regions and countries worldwide undergoing humanitarian emergencies or crises....   [more]
Holdings: 1998-present
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Supplemental URLs
    IRIN Film and TV

James Koetting Ghana Field Recording Collection
The complete 1974-75 field tapes made by James T. Koetting among the Kasena people of Ghana. Koetting was a faculty member at Brown from 1975 to his death in 1984. ...   [more]
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Retracing Heinrich Barth in Niger
Ineractive web archive and photographic exhibition on Agadez and Tintellust, Niger, West Africa, visited by 19th century German explorer Heinrich Barth....   [more]
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Return to Goree
- from Kanopy
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Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
- from Alexander Street Press
Includes the catalog of the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label as well as the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, and Paredon label...   [more]
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South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid
First-hand accounts of the South African anti-apartheid movement. Includes interviews with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical docu...   [more]
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South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission Videotape Collection
84 news broadcast episodes by Max Du Preez on the history and activities of the TRC. April 1996-March 1998. Hosted by the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Library....   [more]
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Watson Kintner film collection, University Museum
More than 400 short ethnographic and travel films by Watson Kintner, from the Museum Archives of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania....   [more]
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