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Nigeria gained independence from the British Empire on 1 October 1960.
The film includes sequences in and around Gwoza including markets, a palm plantation, villages and drilling for artesian wells. The ...
Short documentary about the game of football.
Opening with Cup Final (Wolves 3, Leicester 1), film shows football being ...
'When Mr. Creech Jonmes, Secretary of State for the Colonies, cut a symbolic turf on the site of the new ...
January 7th 1955. An announcement by Chief Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region of Nigeria at the radio station? He ...
Film shows the work of the small village pottery at Naraguta, a few miles outside Jos, Plateau Province. The pots ...
A study of Northern Nigeria as it prepares for self-government.
The commentator introduces Africa as the 'continent of the future' before ...
Taken in Nigeria, this film shows the production of cocoa, how the farmer prepares the beans and how the cocoa ...
A trip to West Africa by Guinness employees.
A lorry carrying crates of beer, it stops at an isolated building to ...
30 reels of various footage taken in Nigeria. Large proportion of footage shows public works.
Life in a village of the Hausa people (Mohammedans), who live in the northern part of Nigeria. The men and ...
DRAMA. A love story of two generations.
R.1 Dr. Martin Sumner, a Victorian country doctor and early motor enthusiast, meets Dora ...
The river Iju, Lagos. The source of the water and how the water is purified before it reaches Lagos, via ...