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The history of Nigeria before 1500 has been divided into its prehistory, Iron Age, and flourishing of its kingdoms and states. Acheulean tool-using archaic humans may have dwelled throughout West Africa since at least between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP ( Middle Pleistocene ). [ 1 ]
K.D. Mehra made the first Punjabi "talkie" film, Sheela, also known as Pind Di Kurhi, in 1935. [1] Young Noor Jehan was introduced as an actress and singer in this film. Sheila was made in the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and released in Lahore. It ran very successfully and was a hit across the province. [2]
Nigeria 1914. Ten years after the "Scramble for Africa" - in the 1890s - it became increasingly clear that colonial rule in Africa was not a profitable endeavour and that the exploration and development of the continent, which had originally been initiated by the private sector, could only be continued through state-military measures and/or ...
[12] [13] As of 1954, mobile cinema vans played to at least 3.5 million people in Nigeria, and films being produced by the Nigerian Film Unit were screened for free at the 44 available cinemas. The first film entirely copyrighted to the Nigerian Film Unit is Fincho (1957) by Sam Zebba; which is also the first Nigerian film to be shot in colour ...
The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of Onitsha in the southeast and ...
Lists of Punjabi films by year (33 P) P. Film posters for Punjabi-language films (7 F) R. Punjabi films remade in other languages (4 C, 9 P) Punjabi remakes of Hindi ...
1 Before 1970. 2 1970s. 3 1980s. 4 1990s. Toggle 1990s subsection. 4.1 1990. 4.2 1991. 4.3 1992. 4.4 1993. ... This is a list of films / movies produced in Nigeria by ...
Year Title Director Genre Notes 1947 Au pays des mages noirs: Pierre Ponty, Jean Rouch & Jean Sauvy: Documentary English title: In the Land of the Black Mages: 1948 Les magiciens de Wanzerbé: Marcel Griaule & Jean Rouch Documentary 1949 La circoncision: Jean Rouch Documentary English title: The Circumcision: 1949 Initiation à la danse des ...