THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
The Africans: In Search of Stabiliity. Regards the direction of African politics in post-colonial times. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
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
MSs people in rural southern Sudan; CU man smoking pipe. MSs older man in uniform ringing bell;
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
LS/MSs Sudanese Parliament in session; members in Western, Muslim, and military dress; most chamber seats are empty; parliamentary members debate.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
Host Ali Mazrui discusses the dialectic between military and civilian governments in Africa, between ideals of "discipline" and "openness"; says that Parliaments have difficulty compromising the two; says that the Sudan is the only African nation where a military government has been overthrown by civilians, in 1964.
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
Anti-government protesters in Sudan. Riots
THE AFRICANS: In Search of Stability
Mosque in Sudan; Host Ali Mazrui interviews Prime Minister of Sudan Sadiq al-Mahdi on grounds of mosque; VO says Islamic governments alienate the south of the country; CU Islamic (Muslim) man.