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Summary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIS

Summary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFR

Makatini, Bella

Summary: Danny spends a week with his Grandpa, who tells Danny about one animal from his homeland each day that he is there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAK

Summary: John Wilson is a brilliant, driven filmmaker who is determined to turn his new project in Africa into a grand personal adventure hunting a wild elephant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WHI

Summary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COM

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