Description
Common Interest is the series title for ten 25 minute programmes which focuses on individual experiences in development. Although each episode tells a different story they are grouped into three parts to expeller three different aspects as happened in 1983.
Episode 1. The Land is Mother
In Kenya after independence most of the agricultural land was bought by eight large foriegn companies.This drove many people off the land and into cities. This episode shows the situation 20 years after independence.
Episode 2. Mozambique
After fierce struggle against Portuguese colonial rule by Frelimo, Mozambique gained independence and began life under a self-styled Marxist government. Forced labour was ended. Males workers who had been sent to work in South African mines which still had an apartheid regime at that times returns home. Women talk about the changes in their lives, about improved although still rudimentary health and education services. But life is still hard in 1983. There is a lack of transport and distribution systems causing food shortages which is accented by bouts of bad weather. Each village has a co-op food store and in many are co-op workshops making clothes etc.
Episode 3. Fruits of Freedom
In this final eposode of ‘How the Other Lives’ a discussion takes place comparing Kenya with Mozambique, two countries wit different political and economic philospohies (in 1983).The subjects range over; the marketing of land, growing cash crops for export (coffee, cocoa and tabcco) as opposed to food for local consumption. In Kenya soon after independence multinationals rushed in to buy up land.
The imagery and film quality may not be to modern standards but is useful for historical use.
This programme can be rented on our Video on Demand system for £2.00, for this you can view as often as you like within a 48 hour period of your own choosing, the film is available to stream or download for £10.00.
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Common Interest Part 1 (How the Other Half Lives) from Concord Media on Vimeo.
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