Sango Malo

November 12, 2008
The Village Teacher
Call Number: VHS00344
by Bassek Ba Kobhio; Films Terre Africaine.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel [distributor, 1991?]
Notes: Originally released in 1991 (94 mins.);
Summary: A new high school teacher brings turmoil to a rural Cameroonian village when he introduces sex education and vocational training into the curriculum. He also starts agricultural and marketing cooperatives for villagers that the students work on as part of their education. The local authorities however, including the store owner and school’s headmaster, are alarmed by the teacher’s radical actions and have him imprisoned.
OCLC #: 27120937
Added: November 12, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Le Grand blanc de Lambaréné

The Great White Man of Lambaréné
Call Number: VHS00338
by Bassek Ba Kobhio; André Wilms; Marisa Berenson; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (93 mins.);
Summary:  A fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer…shot on the site of [his] hospital in Gabon…reveals a man blinded to the people around him by his own spiritual self-absorption and arrogance.
OCLC #: 36002851
Added: November 12, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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