Africa Today: Changes and Challenges
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 2001.11.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Northeast Historic Film (Organization)
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content: Northeast Historic Educational Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 539 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film produced by the Hearst Corporation provides a brief survey of the political, economic, and social changes and challenges faced within the African Continent in the 1960's. Filmed during a wide-scale independence movement throughout the continent, the film focuses on how various countries coped with nationalist movements; the push for equal education and career access for non-white Africans; opening elections to accommodate majority rule, and civil unrest. The countries featured are Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Rhodesia, and South Africa.