Check out the Library of African Cinema collection from California Newsreel-Film and Video for Social Change - www.newsreel.org
(new and old, fiction and non-fiction DVDs) including:
Was developed as “training tape for community-based orphan care programs. But the rapid spread of AIDS made the problem so acute they felt only a feature film could place the issue at the forefront of the national agenda.”
Shows how women are organizing at the grassroots level to insure their participation in Africa's current move towards democracy.
“This film is one of the most magical to come out of Africa--hardly surprising since Madagascar is unlike anywhere else on earth.”
A little dated, 1998, but still a current issue…
“Zan Boko expertly reveals the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence society into an industrialized commodity economy. Zan Boko is also one of the first African films to explore the impact of the mass media in changing an oral society into one where information is packaged and sold.”
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