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The archives of the Community Video Education Trust (CVET) in Cape Town comprise approximately 2,500 tapes and cover a wide spectrum of video of the brutalities of apartheid and the anti-apartheid struggle.
Culture, Communication, and Media Studies (CCMS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has developed many reviews and synopses of African film and video, much of which already is in the database. CMS also holds 200 films and videos from the Film Resource Unit in Johannesburg and M-Net Awards.
The National Film, Video and Sound Archives (NFVSA) of the South African National Archives holds images and narrative on colonial South Africa, World War II, and the coming to power of the Nationalist State in 1948; the interpretation of apartheid by the State; acadstrongic and state-sponsored ethnographies of African peoples; presentations of popular culture of Afrikaner and English South Africans; and much more.
The African National Congress Archive contains approximately 10,000 units of video and film, most not yet incorporated into edited productions. These materials focus on the activities in exile of the ANC, SACP, and SACTU with videos and films from Zambia, Angola, Lesotho, Botswana, Uganda, Tanzania (especially the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College at Mazimbu).
The African Media Program (AMP), a project of MSU’s African Studies Center begun in the early 1980s, offers an on-line database reference guide to approximately 12,000 film and video materials concerning Africa. Data include complete catalog citations and, for many of the itstrongs, synopses, minute-by-minute content inventories, topical keywords, reviews, ratings, and critical evaluations, full-text reviews, and distributors offering the materials for sale or rental. The African Studies Center is a coordinating office for 160+ faculty at MSU who are expert on aspects of Africa. The faculty are engaged in nearly 100 projects of research and development about Africa (see http://africa.msu.edu/research.php) and offer 30 African languages for graduate study of Africa. For almost 20 years, MSU has produced more Ph.D. dissertations on Africa than any other institution.
MATRIX: Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University seeks to advance critical understanding and promote access to knowledge through world-class research in humanities technology. MATRIX researchers use networked technologies to advance, mediate, and inform the humanist disciplines of history, literature, language, philosophy, as well as disciplines within the arts, social sciences, and education. MATRIX has focused on many projects in and about Africa, including the Africa Online Digital Library, South Africa National Cultural Heritage Project, “Overcoming Apartheid” online curriculum, and others.