DVDs about Africa by Christopher Roy ($24.95 each)

Videos about African people:
Fulani: Art and Life of a Nomadic People The Fulani are a diverse people who live across west Africa from Dakar to Lake Chad. They herd cattle, sheep, goats and camels, and live from the milk from their cows. They create very beautiful art, including hairstyles, dress, mats, architecture, song, music and dance. This video features three Fulani peoples: the Gowabe, Jelgobe, and Wodaabe.
Birds of the Wilderness: The Beauty Competition of the Wodaabe People of Niger The Wodaabe people of southern Niger, West Africa, hold a beauty competition each fall in which young men paint their faces red and wear costumes of white beads and cloth, with white ostrich feathers in their hats. They are judged based on charm and beauty by the young women of the competing clan.
A Year in the Life of an African Family: The Bamogo Family of Burkina Faso Family life in Burkina Faso. The Bamogo family are smiths in the towns of Dablo and Pinsa, north of Kaya. We visit them as they harvest crops, cook a meal, make pottery, visit the chief, and attend an annual ceremony in the village.
A Day in the Life of a Village in Africa Cooking, drawing water, pounding millet, building a house, spinning cotton thread, playing soccer, going to school, in the Senufo village of Sayaga, in western Burkina.

Videos about African art:
African Sculpture: Carving a Crocodile Mask, Shaping a Mask of Leaves An artist of the Gnoumou family carves a crocodile mask of wood, and men of the Bayer family fashion a mask of leaves to represent Do, the God of the wilderness.
African Art as Theater: The Bwa Masks of the Gnoumou Family of Boni The masks of the Gnoumou family in the Bwa village of Boni act out the historical encounters between their ancestors and the spirits of the wilderness.
Speaking With God: A Mossi Baga Diviner in Burkina Faso An elderly diviner, whose ancestor was painted in 1907 by a German explorer, wears a spectacular costume as he speaks with God.
Masks of Leaves and Wood: The Bwa People of Burkina Faso The Bwa people make masks of leaves that represent the spirit of the springtime and of the wilderness, and masks of wood that represent nature spirits.
African Art in Performance: The Winiama Masks of the Village of Ouri Dozens of masks, representing chameleons, bush buffalo, antelope, dangerous one-horned spirits, monkeys, and others appear in a lengthy performance in a village in central Burkina Faso.
African Art in Motion: The Masks of the Nuna People of Burkina Faso The masks of the Nuna people from the villages of Savara and Tisse, including the bush pig, butterfly, bush buffalo, old man, hyena, and many others.
Art as a Verb in Africa: The Masks of the Bwa Village of Boni This video documents the opening celebration of the masks of the Bonde family in Boni in late February, 2005. Dozens of masks and thousands of people appear to dance, sing, and honor the spirits that watch over them.
African Masks: Burkina Faso Three videos of masks in performance: the first is older footage from the 1970s and 80s of Mossi, Bwa, Bobo, and Nuna masks. The others are of more recent performances, filmed with digital video, of masks in the Nuna towns of Savara and Tisse.
The Death of an African King: The Funeral of the Omanhene of Techiman The complex and colorful state funeral for the Chief of the large town of Techiman (Takyiman) north of Kumasi, in Ghana. Chiefs, royal arts, textiles, music.

Videos about African techniques:
African Pottery Techniques: Clay Preparation, Forming Techniques, Firing There are at least five different techniques potters use in Africa to make pottery. All the techniques, as well as firing, are shown in detail.
From Iron Ore to Iron Hoe: Smelting Iron in Africa The elder men of the Bamogo family of smiths in the village of Dablo extract iron ore from a nearby deposit and smelt it into raw iron using a traditional furnace. They then forge it into a hoe blade.
African Weaving: Spinning, Strip Weaving in Burkina, Kente in Ghana The strip-woven kente cloths of the Asante and Ewe peoples of Ghana are well known in Europe and America, but few people have seen the techniques by which these brilliant textiles are made. The video also shows indigo dyeing and weaving in Burkina Faso.
Arts of Ghana: Brass Casting, Pottery, Adinkra, Kente, Stool Carving This video documents the technologies of brass casting, pottery, stool carving, kente weaving, and drumming among Akan peoples of Ghana.
Drums of Africa:Talking Drums of Techiman The drum ensemble of the Chief of Techiman demonstrates a variety of traditional drum rhythms.
Brewing Millet Beer in Africa Follow all of the steps, from sprouting and grinding the millet, to boiling the grain, adding the yeast, and drinking the finished product. This is the way Africans have been brewing beer for thousands of years.