Free Namibia

Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Narrated by Ossie Davis.; Documents the torment and the struggle of Namibia under South African rule-the black population has been relegated to arid "homelands" where they can find neither food nor work, the average lifespan is 31 years, and more than half of all black children die before age five. Shows the rituals and myths of the affluent white settler society. Explains that the multinational corporations, which extract Namibia's strategic mineral reserves of copper, diamonds and uranium, are at the economic base of the country. How white interansigence has led to support for SWAPO, the South West Africa People's Organization, as Namibians begin to fight for their freedom.; Senior high through adult.; PFA 1612-01-5567. faded; Color is fading