Research: ID 116: Africa Today: Find Multimedia

Multimedia collection

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
Africa Focus brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries. It is hoped that the search features of the collection will be a convenient aid to scholarship, study, and teaching of these disciplines.
Multimedia Archive from UPenn African Study Center

Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers over 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 14,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street, all with a predictable annual cost.

Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons, giving libraries a high return on investment.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a provider of documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases available as streaming video. Clips from the videos can be embedded in presentations or shown in class. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.

African Media Project
A project of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. AMP provides an on-line comprehensive reference guide to more than 10,000 films, videos, and other audiovisual materials concerning Africa (both Sub-Saharan and North Africa). It includes film and video productions made in Africa and around the world.
BU Krasker Film/Media Services Catalog

;Browse Kanopy's Library of streaming video, including the following:

Kanopy Streaming : African Studies Kanopy Streaming provides access to films on a variety of subjects, and includes documentaries as well as feature films including Criterion Collection selections. BU login required for web streaming, a variety of apps are also available.

Bamako by Abderrahmane Sissako
Location: Mugar Krasker Film Collection 30425.DV
Publication Date: 2006
Chocolat by Claire Denis Effective study of the waning days of French colonial Cameroon, as shown through the eyes of the young daughter of a harried bureaucrat. Impressive and personal directorial debut for scenarist Claire Denis stars Isaach du Bankole, Guilia Boschi, Francois Cluzet. 105 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; theatrical trailer. In French with English subtitles.
Location: Mugar Krasker Film Collection 22655.VH
Publication Date: 1988

ARTstor This link opens in a new window ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
Associated Press Images Collection This link opens in a new window Associated Press Images Collection is a searchable collection of recent and historical photos from the Associated Press, plus AP graphics, articles, and brief sound clips.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (formerly Aluka) This link opens in a new window This digital collection of documents and images relating to the anti-Apartheid movement and liberation struggles of Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Materials including magazines, nationalist publications, colonial government records, newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other relevant books, oral testimonies, life histories, and speeches. Date coverage: 20th and 21th century, with the bulk of material dating from 1970-1994.