Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUBurroughs, Edgar Rice
Summary: Edgar Rice Burroughs's epic story of love and adventure is well-adapted here for the young reader, leaving intact much of the author's original prose and the book's narrative structure. With the strength of a beast and the grace of an athlete, Tarzan of the Apes has risen to become the king of the animals. His life changes, when he spies a young woman, Jane Porter, among a crew of stranded...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quiet Vision Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURContents: Disc 1 The soul: Intro -- Bukom Mashie -- Ajo -- New bell -- Ye ye de smell -- Indictment -- Asmarina -- Mulatu -- Samba -- Mahlalela -- Did you hear that sound (Toshio Matsuura remix) -- Disc 2 The spirit: MAW expensive (a tribute to Fela) -- Afrika -- Lufuala NDongo -- Aso kere (IG culture mix) -- Angola (Carl Craig remix) -- Heart's a lonely hunter -- Funu (Hi-life mix) -- Jump 4 luv...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ether Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN PETMbue, Imbolo
Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MBUDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: Africa, its geography, people and products -- The geography of Africa -- The people -- The languages -- The products -- Political divisions of Africa -- Independent Africa -- Partially independent Africa -- British protectorates in South Africa -- Mandated territories -- Belgian Africa -- French Africa -- Portuguese Africa -- Spanish Africa -- Italian Africa -- Africa, its place in modern...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 DUBSummary: 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