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The Blooms of Benjeli: Technology and Gender in West African Ironmaking 1997 29‘

Directed by Carlyn Saltman .

The filmmaker and two historians went into the village of Banjeli in 1985 to recreate for the film the traditional iron smelting techniques (which are no longer used) of the area. By focusing on the

West Africa Art / Artists / Artisans Archival material / Museum displays History Material Culture

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Usch in the Bush 2001 32‘

Directed by Michaela Schäuble .

In the 1980s Ursula Heimer leaves behind her husband and children in Germany and goes to live in the African bush. We meet her seventeen years later in a tiny village in Togo, where she has been

West Africa Personal Narrative Alternative culture