Sudan Trilogy. 2, Nuba Conversation / a film by Arthur Howes.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Howes, Arthur, director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nubians--Sudan--History--20th century.

Nubians.

Nubians--Sudan--Ethnic identity.

Nuba (African people)--Social conditions.

Nuba (African people).

Nuba (African people)--Cultural assimilation.

Nuba (African people)--Civil rights.

Sudan--Ethnic relations.

Sudan.

Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1999.

Language Note:

In English.

In Nilo-Saharan.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Ten years after he made Kafi's Story, director Arthur Howes returns to the Sudan to find the members of the Nuba who featured in his earlier documentary film. Soon after he had left the Sudan, the mountain area they had been living in became the battlefield of the civil war that has been destroying much of the Sudan ever since. With a government that is attempting to gain absolute control, the people of Nuba have been persecuted, deported, and deprived of much of their land. Children have been put into camps, many of them brainwashed in the military. Many of their fathers have voluntarily joined the army and are now being forced to fight their own people, as they have not been able to find any other way of making a living. Some of the Nuba people have fled to other countries, such as Ethiopia and Kenya. Groups of women have withdrawn further into the mountains. Howes, who had a great deal of difficulty obtaining a visa for the Sudan, manages to find several of the Nuba men and women he filmed back in the late eighties, and their testimonies are, without exception, revealing. He succeeds in organizing secret screenings of Kafi's Story, which they have never seen before, and the contrast between their lives then and now is shocking. It is rare to hear stories collected from so deeply within a community. Howes gives his personal perspective during much of his commentary.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016).

OCLC:

954043154