Draft:Musindo Mwinyipembe

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

Early Life and Career

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

  • 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

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.

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