Kwame Nkrumah Resource Guide: Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

A celebration at the Old Polo Grounds on the eve of Ghana's independence, 1957, recorded live, with music and a speech by Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, "At long last the struggle has ended...", followed by Ghana's National Anthem.

Part of a collection of audiotapes on African literature, music, art, and history.
Call Number: Sc Audio C-24

The C. L. R. James lectures and interviews collection consists of ̲̲̲̲ recordings of James' views on world politics and history and their relationships to current political and racial issues, especially that of the black struggle. He expounds upon the revolutionary forces of Russia, France, Haiti, Czechoslavakia, Hungary, Cuba and countries of Africa. James discusses the philosophies of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Franz Fanon and the ideas of DuBois, George Padmore, Pascal, Sartre, Aime' C'esaire, Walter Rodney, George Lamming, and Rosa Luxemburg.

Julian Hudson Mayfield (June 6, 1928 – October 20, 1984) was an American actor, director, writer, lecturer and civil rights activist. His theatrical work includes writing the plays "Fire" (1949) and "417" (1955); directing and producing Ossie Davis's "Alice in Wonder" (1952); and making his Broadway acting debut as Absalom in the musical "Lost in the Stars" (1949). He also wrote the screenplay and starred in the film "Uptight" (1968) and wrote the 1976 screenplay of his novel "The Long Night." His literary works include the novels "The Hit" (1957), "The Long Night" (1958) and "The Grand Parade" (1961); he wrote numerous articles for leftist and black nationalist publications. He went to live in Ghana in 1961 and worked as a writer in the office of President Kwame Nkrumah and as a journalist and editor of African Review, an international magazine of political and economic affairs.

This documentary surveys the evolution of the OAU from its creation in 1963 through the celebrations marking its 30th anniversary in Addis Ababa as well as the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Cairo, Egypt in June 1993.

Part of a collection of audiotapes on African literature, music, art and history.
Call Number: Sc Audio C-55 [Side 1, no. 1]

Part of a collection of audiotapes on African literature, music, art and history.
Call Number: Sc Audio C-55 [Side 2, no. 2]

Panel discussion, Participants include G. Masika, A. Dante, Charles Patterson, and Ernest Gellner. The themes of tribalism, the survival of regional cultures in Africa, and pan-African political and cultural unity are discussed.

A documentary about Afro-Brazilian scholar/writer/activist/politician Abdias do Nascimento (1914-2011), a leader of Brazil's Black movement. He founded the Black Experimental Theater in 1944 and was very active in the international Pan-African Movement..

An interview with Amy Ashwood Garvey, the first wife of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey (1st work) discusses her life with Macus Garvey and her own career as a political activist in her own right ; An interview Amy Jacques Garvey, the second wife of Marcus Garvey (2nd work) discusses the legacy of Marcus Garvey ; Marcus Garvey, toward black nationhood (3rd work).

Explores the relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, space exploration, and computer technology. Examines science fiction elements in literature and music as metaphors for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement and cultural alienation.