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Slima the dhowmaker: Tanzania

Canada, 1978
film

Episode of Series “World cultures and youth”. A Tanzanian teenager is apprenticed to a dhow-builder and learns skills unchanged for two thousand y..

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A Nomad boy

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Bifo Kam

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Salima in transition

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Serama's mask

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Let's go sailing. No. 1

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Johura

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