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Africa: Colonial PR Films Provide a Window to Africa's More Recent Past

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Citizen Media, Film, History, Politics

African Urbanism discusses the UK's Colonial Film Catalogue [1], a database of more than 6000 films, which provides a window into British colonial period: “…these videos find their value in providing a fantastic trip through time into life in these places — showing people as they were (or, rather, how the government/companies would like you to see them), and life at the time (again, likely how we're supposed to see them).”