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Des hommes et du sable

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Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1974
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 50 (in minutes)

An interrogation on the future of the Tuareg in the region of Agadès in Niger after the great drought of 1972.
The big caravans disappear, the big herds are decimated. Is the sedentarization of these breeders inevitable? This film includes an interesting sequence on the research of the Nigerian biologist Moukaïla Maïguiso for the renovation of palm groves.

a film by Philippe JAMAIN

France, 1974, DOCUMENTARY ■ 50 min., COL., 16 mm

Director: Philippe JAMAIN
Assistant director: Hubert ROY

Copy available:
Cinémathèque Afrique (Paris), in 16 mm

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