Nalia Mimi – New Music Boys

Bujumbura, Burundi, 2007

T4D - First Episode Burundi - 2007

Burundi is a country where civil war has just ended. A fantastic place where mass tourism has never existed. In the capital city Bujumbura, they meet Alfredo, an engineer that decided to invest in ecotourism many years ago, before the war broke out. Alfredo's hotel is the starting point of their travel to discover some of the most untouched areas of Africa: Lake Tanganyika and the fisherman village of Rumonge, the small lakes region close to Kirundo village, the hills and the tea plantations surrounding the city of Gitega, the Natural Reserve of Rusizi, the Kibira forest and the pigmy village of Busekera.

The episode has been produced in partnership with the Tourism Office of Burundi, the National Institute for Nature Conservation and the Environment of Burundi, and the Hotel Club Du Lac Tanganyika. Part of the Episode is running on Lonely Planet TV web site and youtube channel

Mungiki - The Kenyan Mafia

A documentary about the pre - elections situation in Kenya in 2007, the Mathare massacre “Operation Kosovo ”, the analogy between Kenyan and Italian Mafia.

Mungiki is a politico-religious group and a banned criminal organization in Kenya. The name means "A united people" or "multitude" in the Kikuyu language. The ideology of the group is characterised by revolutionary rhetoric, Kikuyu traditions, and a disdain for Kenyan modernization, which is seen as immoral corruption. Mungiki is often referred to as Kenya’s Cosa Nostra, Yakuza, or Kenyan Mafia due to its organization.

Produced with the Director Enzo Nucci for RAI Italian Public Broadcaster and broadcasted on TG3 “Agenda del Mondo” (2007). Only in Italian

COSV

A video to promote COSV health project in South Sudan – 2007

In South Sudan, in the middle of a big swamp, seven days of canoe from the nearest village, there is Nyal. No electricity, cars or markets, just a community of Nuer who settled there running away from the war.

Here COSV is running the only health project of the whole area: an hospital and different dispensaries.

Mifugu Ni Mali - Herd is richness

A video ethnology about the Maasai tribe of Paracuyo, Tanga, Tanzania. Maasai tell us about themselves, they explain who they are and what might be their future. The relationship with the occidental world, the changes in the world and in their villages. For the Maasai the communication with the external world is fundamental: if the Maasai culture is survived till now thanks to isolation, today the chiefs of the villages know that the communication and the opening to the external world through the video is a way to improve their culture. The discovery of this world makes us to think. The news about the environment that come out every day give us a picture of a world to the limit of survival, with a few years of life due to the pollution and the over-exploitation of the natural resources. An absolutely necessary need of a comparison with a different world comes out. A more respectful world for the nature and the living beings (2007)

Ghetto Faboulas - Ukooflani Mau Mau

Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya, 2007

Stay Strong - Washefah Ukooflani Mau Mau

Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya, 2007