French, Howard W.
Summary: "[Howard French] takes us inside Nigeria, Liberia, Mali, and the Congo, examining ... the legacy of colonization in the lives of contemporary Africans"--jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.032 FRREOrr, Tamra
Summary: From conquering a difficult natural environment to fighting in political power struggles, the peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa have met every obstacle with determination. Comprised of 46 countries, this region is also diverse and bountiful with vibrant cultures. This book features fact-filled text that explores and explains this area's cultures. Full-color photographs spotlight the clothes, art,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 967 ORRKeppeler, Jill
Summary: "From savannas to rain forests to deserts, the geography of Sub-Saharan Africa is second to none in terms of diversity. Readers will explore the brilliant, dynamic landscapes and cityscapes of Sub-Saharan Africa through fascinating full-color photographs and fact-filled text. How have people adapted to the land and climate of Sub-Saharan Africa, and what lies in store for inhabitants as the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 916.7 KEPVickery, Kenneth Powers.
Summary: "This course of 36 lectures is intended to provide a general introduction to Africa and its history ... This course will focus primarily on Africa south of the Sahara Desert" --p. 1 of guidebook.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 AFRAllan, Tony
Summary: Examines the myths and beliefs of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 299 ALLSummary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3
Clarke, Duncan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.0967 ClarkFleck, Béla
Contents: Tulinesangala (Nakisenyi women's group) -- Kinetsa (D'Gary) -- Ah ndiya (Oumou Sangare) -- Kabibi (Anania Ngoglia) -- Angelina (Luo Cultural Association) -- D'Gary jam (D'Gary, Oumou Sangare, Richard Bona, Baba Maal, Vusi Mahlasela, Afel Bocum, Anania Mgoglia, Toumani Diabate, and friends) -- Throw down your heart (Haruna Samake Trio and Bassekou Kouyate) -- Thula mama (Vusi Mahlasela) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FLEAnderson, Martha G.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center for African Art 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 PattonSummary: Nelson Mandela spoke of the past haunting the present. This program explores the rebirth of South Africa, demonstrating that a national history racked with oppression can guide and instruct those working for a better future. Studying the moving and provocative art of the apartheid era, the program also visits Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned, and examines Cape Town's historic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Renowned as a voice of conscience in apartheid South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu-Nobel laureate and Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)-has spent his life opposing his nation's discriminatory policies. In a powerful interview with prize-winning journalist Bill Moyers, this courageous Anglican prelate discusses his life and work and shares his thoughts on justice,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The years 1960 through 1994 were a time of terror in South Africa. With the destruction of the yoke of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has had to come to terms with its oppressive past: recrimination and punishment, or forgiveness? This compelling program describes the efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate human rights violations, to heal the country, and to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Chinua Achebe is president of the town council in his village in Nigeria, a role that brings him more headaches than honors. He's also a storyteller who hears the music of history, weaves the fabric of memory, and sometimes offends the Emperor as well. His first novel, Things Fall Apart, took the world by storm. Achebe disagrees with the notion that literature should be divorced from the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Things Fall Apart has been translated into 50 languages, has sold over 8 million copies, and is considered one of the 20th century's literary masterpieces. This program analyzes the impact Chinua Achebe and his writings have had on world literature, as well as his influence as an editor and a spokesman for a generation of African writers. Dr. Achebe, noted professors Abiola Irele and Gerald...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The world largely ignored Rwanda's descent into genocide and civil war. With tensions continuing along the Congo-Rwanda border, will history repeat itself? This ABC News program examines new challenges in central and eastern Africa, reporting on the instability created by Hutu guerillas known as the FDLR. The program also analyzes successes and failures that have occurred as Rwanda tries to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Does the future of capitalism favor the global corporations of the West-or small, competitive businesses that are homegrown in the developing world? This program offers valuable case studies that clearly illustrate both the challenges and the enormous potential of non-Western entrepreneurship. In Senegal, plastics manufacturer SIMPA has obtained funding for equipment upgrades and employee...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: A major gateway to sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan has seen the rise and fall of many powerful kingdoms and refined cultures-and the key to understanding these ancient civilizations lies in the multitude of archaeological treasures that dot the landscape and that are still buried beneath the sands. This program follows the trail of the young French naturalist and pioneer Frederic Cailliaud, whose...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Goree Island is where the slave ships anchored, cramming their holds with Africans to be shipped across the Atlantic to work the fields and tend their "owners" throughout the Western Hemisphere; Goree Island is where the enslaved Africans were held until the ships were ready to receive them. This documentary tells the history of the slave trade: the arrival of the first Europeans, the origins...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Olopade, Dayo
Summary: A Nigerian-American journalist attempts to dispel the warring, impoverished, and pitiful images of Africa so prevalent in the media with the joyful and innovative country she knows by highlighting the commercial opportunities and technological innovations to be found there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.03 OLOSummary: Corporate greed and vestigial colonialism are Africa's worst enemies-or is homegrown leadership responsible for the continent's troubles? This program explores that dichotomous question from the vantage point of former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings and Kenyan law student June Arunga, who undertake a voyage of discovery through Ghana, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Visiting a struggling fishing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: After years of apartheid, open elections were finally held in South Africa in the 1980s. Alan Paton, anti-apartheid activist and author of the internationally acclaimed novel, Cry the Beloved Country, played a major role in freeing his nation from the yoke of institutionalized prejudice. Here, the author discusses the influences which inspired him to write the novel, and uses passages from it...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Dugard, Martin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUGDetroit Institute of Arts
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.09 AFRSummary: During its campaign of terror in northern Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army has abducted thousands of children of the Acholi tribe and forced them to kill among their own people. This powerful, award-winning documentary examines the tragic aftermath of a brutal practice by following the lives of two boys and two girls between the ages of 8 and 14 who escape their captors. Their plight is seen...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005