The return of Sara Baartman [videorecording] / narration written ... by Gail Smith ; produced and directed by Zola Maseko ; Black Roots Pictures.

Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, [2003]

1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Chronicles the return of the remains of Sara Baartman, a Black woman who had been exhibited as a freak in early nineteenth-century Europe. Her remains were returned to South Africa from France, where they had been kept at the Museum of Man (Musée L'Homme). On April 29, 2002, Sara's remains were officially handed back to the South African people at an emotionally charged ceremony at the country's Embassy in Paris and, on August 9 (National Women's Day), she was ceremonially buried on the banks of the Gamtoos River. Sara's repatriation involved years of lobbying by people in South Africa, including Professor Phillip Tobias, South African poet Diana Ferrus, and French senator Nicolas About who, when told that only a law could force the country to give up Baartman, introduced one.

Images / Video & Film

English; French

November 12, 2003

Camera, Jonathan Kovel ; editor, Guy Spiller ; original music composed and produced by Pops Mohamed.

Narration, Gail Smith.

VHS.

Documentary films.