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THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
Princess Alexandra of England arriving at Nigerian Parliament in Lagos, meeting with Governor General Sir James Robertson, entering Colonial Parliament to commemorate the turnover of power to an independent Parliament in Nigeria. Panning shots of Parliamentary members.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
Interior of Nigerian parliament in Lagos
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
Nigerian Parliament in Lagos, Colonial Parliament the turnover of power to an independent Parliament in Nigeria.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
TLS Nigeria Airlines jet airplane taxiing; MSs Nigerian leader Shehu Shagari (Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari) getting off plane, saluted by a military band; MSs van w/ posters Shagari and a P.A. system driving through a city to campaign; MSs supporters chanting and cheering, celebrating, banging drums; TLS motorcade;
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
MSs political rally, Shehu Shagari speaking, receiving great reception from Muslim compatriots in northern Nigeria; the president urges not to have strictly tribal parties and to work for unity. Shagari calls for a peaceful election.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
Poster for Obafemi Awolowo. TLS/MSs of a rural rally Obafemi Awolowo, Unity Party of Nigeria. TLS/MSs of rally, police mixing uneasily with the crowd. VO says that despite this candidates moderate socialist platform, most Nigerians voted for "tribal" candidates, not nationally oriented ones.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
MCUs band playing a herald for a head of state in Sudan; EST shot grandiose palace; MS Sudanese soldiers. VO says common Islamic faith can tie societies together so that coups are less likely against Sudanese dictators than elsewhere in Africa.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
MSs celebration for Sudan President Gaafar Nimeiry (Jaafar Nimeiry, Gaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry, Ga'far Muhammad an-Numayri;); MSs Gen. Gaafar Nimeiry attending celebration.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
MS/CUs Sudanese soldiers on maneuvers in desert; LS charging soldiers in desert; VO discusses civil wars of secession in Sudan; MS/TLSs soldiers trudging through desert; MCU soldier firing rifle; CU spent shells in sand. Soldiers trudging through desert. Statue of soldier.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
LS tall minarets of a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan. TLS/MSs Khartoum street scenes; MSs Muslim northerners in marketplace.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
B&W clip of newsreel announcing the transfer of power from Belgium to Zaire in the Congo: the Belgian flag is lowered over Parliament; Patrice Lumumba being congratulated by members of parliament.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
B&W clip of newsreel of deposed PM Patrice Lumumba under arrest by allies of Mobutu Sese Seko. Mr. Lumumba is taken from plane by soldiers; Lumumba is taken from airport by truck; MSs Mobutu Sese Seko; Mr. Lumumba is bound, fed his own words (wad of paper), while his wife and child watch on.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
MS/MCUs Mobutu Sese Seke, audio of 1960s newsreel. MS/CUs pro-Mobutu rally, as he prepares for "re-election"; VO notes that the West has subsidized this brutal regime in order to keep mineral rights; MSs of Mobutu Sese Seko speaking to crowd in French, acting as though he were a candidate in a real election instead of Zaire's dictator-for-life; C/As crowd.
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ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #210171 CU of man being interviewed. No reporter is seen, only hand holding microphone. Reporter asks man how he feels about "A republican justice department investigating a republican administration". Man responds by saying "That's the essance of demagoguery as far as I'm concerned". He goes on to talk about the FBI and praise the work that they are doing.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
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THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Opening montage sequence
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Titles
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Low angle MS teenaged African-American girls clapping in a ring chant; level MSs of same; location is rural American south;
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Charleston, South Carolina. TLS tower of building, tilt to street scene, horse pulls carriage. Traveling shots of stately mansions along a street. EXT of Old Slave Mart Museum, Charleston.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Host Ali Mazrui discusses American slavery as a break with continuity of African identity, teaching by whites of shame in African.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Host Ali Mazrui, standing by Seine River in Paris, says that two strategies have been used by Africans to fight the color and cultural prejudices of colonialism-abolishing white privilege in Africa, and raising the status of brown people in Europe.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
CUs of extravagant gold jewelry, relics of European colonial rule of Africa. MSs of an Algerian quarter of Paris: jewlery shop, signeage, window shopping, crowds, small groceries, butcher shops, etc.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
EST shots of the monuments of Christian and nationalist French history. EST shots of the Basilica de Sacre-Coeur. Montmartre, Paris.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
TLS/MSs inside of a mosque in France, Muslims praying, exiting, putting on shoes, shaking hands with other men.