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Musindo Mwinyipembe (born ) is an accomplished film and radio producer and journalist.

Early Life and Career

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Mwinyipembe was born in Tanzania and grew up in England. She worked with the BBC, with radio and television in East Africa and elsewhere, and with Black Journal. [1] With filmmaker David Koff and photographer colleague, Anthony Howarth, she collaborated on a trilogy of films called The Black Man's Land (1973).[2] Blacks Britannica, a film depicting the struggle of blacks in England and broadcast on PBS.[3]

Filmography

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  • Serengeti Diary (1989), narrator, look at life in the Serengeti Plain through the eyes of wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick and Masai tribesman and author-lecturer Tepilit Ole Saitoti, for National Geographic and WQED
  • Blacks Britannica (1978), as producer
  • Boran Women (1976), narrator
  • White Man's Country
  • Mau Mau
  • Kenyatta

Personal Life

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Koff and Mwinyipembe married in 1969 and had two children, both born in London: Kimera and Clea Koff, a forensic anthropologist, who wrote about her work for the UN in Rwanda, Bosnia and elsewhere in the book The Bone Woman.

References

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  1. ^ Koff, David; Mwinyipembe, Musindo (1979). "The Black Scholar Interviews: David Koff & Musindo Mwinyipembe". The Black Scholar. 10 (8/9): 68–80. ISSN 0006-4246.
  2. ^ Campbell, Duncan (2014-03-13). "David Koff obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  3. ^ "Britannica's Dark Side". Washington Post. 2023-12-22. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-04-16.