Past and Present. Traders, the City, and Men from Over the Sea
Description
There is still a king or Oba of Benin today, and he still dispenses justice to his people. He lives in a very traditional world but has received a British university education. Contrasts like these are commonplace in modern Nigeria: the children shop in the tumult of a traditional market and go to a supermarket to buy plastic toys made in China. Overseas trade is not new to Benin; it was taking place long before the white man arrived. By dramatizing one of the rare accounts by a slave captured as a child, we bring home a small part of the horror that was the slave trade.
Runtime
15 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Social evolution (72)
- Africa, Sub-Saharan (2)
- Assimilation (Sociology) (93)
- Tribes (122)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c1994
Database
Films on Demand
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