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Nigeria gained independence from the British Empire on 1 October 1960.
INTEREST. Bead-making and leather-working in West Africa.
Illustrates the life and training of an African Nurse. Girls apply to the Methodist Hospital at Ituk Mbam to train ...
DOCUMENTARY. Shows some problems to be faced before Nigeria can hope to become an independent nation within the Commonwealth.
RL.1 Different ...
An athletics meeting, concentrating on the Nigerian athletes, at Hotspur Park for the annual Challenge Cup and a reception of ...
Nigeria: Palm oil mill. A modern method of palm oil extraction. Gold Coast: Houses to last. A quick and inexpensive ...
Scenes in a walled Mohammedan city in N. Nigeria.
The film shows the industries, schools, administration and communications of the city. ...
A Nigerian hand-farmer sees the benefits of his neighbour's mixed farm; the running of a mixed farm, including the cultivation ...
The story of Lawani, a Nigerian cocoa farmer and member of a Co-operative Primary Society, who with his son and ...
At Udi in Nigeria.
Work goes on in a village. The chief takes other village chiefs on a tour of inspection ...
The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.
Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander ...
Inter-colonial sports. Nigeria v Gold Coast at Lagos 1947.
'Inter-Colonial Sports Nigeria v Gold Coast, Lagos 1947'. The police ground Ikoyi, ...
Agriculture in a Nigerian African school. Wales. Colonial students meet young farmers at Lampeter. London. Malayan students at a Colonial ...
Taken in Nigeria, this film shows the production of cocoa, how the farmer prepares the beans and how the cocoa ...
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows ...
Government film about the opening of the Nigerian legislative council.
(Reels One and Three only viewed). The introduction provides ...
North-east Nigeria: 1) African village; 2) girl pounding grain; 3) making scar decorations on a boys back; the operation is ...
A film produced in West Africa in order to show how, by sensible conduct and precautionary measures in the home, ...
Life in a village of the Hausa people (Mohammedans), who live in the northern part of Nigeria. The men and ...
The medical work of the Uzuakoli leprosy settlement, and the patients' varied activities.
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
82nd West African Division move their headquarters to the banks of the Dalet river, about a mile north ...
Central or Northern Nigeria: Jos Plateau; children in village and guinea corn; baby bathed on gourds; pounding maize; giving baby ...
North-east Nigeria or Cameroons: 1) Big game on the veldt; 2) two people riding; 3) Africans killing dogs, slitting their ...
Two items on the logistic aspects of the campaign in Burma: the "bloodless battle" of the latter stages ...