Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view.

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Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

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