Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008

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Summary: Follow the continuing professional and personal challenges of Detective William Murdoch and his friends, set in Edwardian-era Toronto.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: A woman invokes a curse to save several girls from female circumcision and faces the anger of her fellow villagers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2007

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Summary: Balthazar Blake is a modern-day sorcerer with his hands full defending Manhattan against dark forces. When a seemingly average kid shows hidden potential, Balthazar takes his reluctant recruit on a crash course in the art and science of magic to become the ultimate sorcerer's apprentice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Pictures 2010

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Summary: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002

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Desnitskaya, Anna

Summary: In mirroring stories set in Russia and Chile, Vera and Lucas long for a friend to share their separate, but surprisingly similar, adventures.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023

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