Nigeria - Its People And Produce (1951)

A British Instructional Film. Map of Africa showing location of Nigeria. Voice-over by Nigerian man. Cattle in a field . A man uses a primitive irrigation device - a shaduf / shadoof - to propel water down a trench. A village is shown where wells have been dug. Men and women work with groundnuts. Man climbs palm tree. Another picks a cocoa pod. Man eats sugar cane. Tin Mining. Open cast method. Many men working by hand. Groundnuts - ploughs are pulled by water buffalo. Seeds sown by hand, using the feet to make holes for the seed. Children and women work. Groundnut plants are harvested and stacked. Simple tools are used for threshing. The women pound the nuts in mortars to separate the husks. Winnowing - letting the husks blow away in the wind. Sacks of groundnuts are loaded on to mules and taken to market. Journey to Kano - the market centre of the North. Children eating, people buying necessities and “small pleasures“ of life. Sacks of groundnuts are unloaded, weighed and exam