Films

Film list

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Benin Kingship Rituals 1963 20'
Directed by Frank Speed Ray Bradbury.
Until it was conquered by the British in 1897, the city of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, was the centre of a powerful kingdom. Its rulers, the Obas of Benin, were mysterious, secluded figures who
West Africa Ritual Dance / Theatre / Performance History
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Were Ni! He is a Madman 1963 30'
Directed by Frank Speed Raymond Prince.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa Health / Health care / Healing Ritual Possession