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THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
DO NOT USE: Illustrations of slave trade.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Host Ali Mazrui walks the battlements of an old fortress in Ghana that served as a "trading factory" of slaves.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
DO NOT USE: Still of African man in bondage (slave trade).
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
MS/GV slave cell. Host Mr. Mazrui, walking in a former slave cell, describes the squalid and brutal conditions of the slaves; says that despite slavery practices in Africa, the Europeans reached unprecedented levels of cruelty, brutality, and simple volume. MS pan of stone cell wall and floor.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
DO NOT USE: More illustrations of the slave trade.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
GV Host Ali Mazrui in dark slave cell holding a lantern talking about the powerful emotions he feels as a modern man reflecting on the horrors of the conditions for the people who once inhabited the dark realities of slavery.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
DO NOT USE: More illustrations of the slave trade.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in Africa in post-colonial times. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Host Ali Mazrui walks from darkness and onto beach; VO discusses the two-century course of decimation of Africa's population.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
LSs of African children playing in the ocean. TLS of a boat being rowed out into the surf.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in Africa in post-colonial times. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
B/W footage of black sharecroppers in American south toting bales of cotton, picking cotton, performing other farm labor on cotton farm; TLSs cotton bales being loaded dockside onto a steamship.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Graphic map of the Atlantic shows slace and textile trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe, host notes that this not only financed more enslavement, but undercut developing industry in West Africa. Triangle Trade.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in post-colonial Africa. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Mr. Mazrui, holding an antique gun, discusses the detrimental impact of trading guns for slaves on African civilizations.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
MSs of a firing range where uniformed Ghana soldiers and civilian Rawlings office workers, including women, fire AK-47's. MSs Ghana military ruler Jerry Rawlings showing office staff how to aim and fire the automatic rifle.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in post-colonial Africa. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film. MS of soldiers marching in a street in Liberia after a sucessful military coup in 1980. MSs of prisoners, members of the previous ruling cadre, being stripped of their clothes and set against posts for execution by firing squad. MSs firing squad, soldiers shooting.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in post-colonial Africa. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
MS older black man working in factory; TLS massive factory gears of a factory; MSs smaller gears; VO describes the development of industrial capitalism, fueled by slavery, was making slavery in the West outdated.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Ali Mazrui discusses the gradual outlawing of the slave trade by industrial nations, leading to a period of exploiting the African continent directly.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in post-colonial Africa. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
TLS rickety ships docked in harbor in East Africa. MS/CUs of markets, mosques, Muslim citizens on streets. TLS of an Arab Dhow sailing in the harbor.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
MSs of citizens in the streets of an East African town, fashion reflecting mixture of Islamic and African cultures. MS Muslim man at sewing machine. EST shots port city.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Host Ali Mazrui discusses the different system of slavery practiced by the Arabs versus the Anglo-Saxon forms and its impact on the form of society.