STRIKING IRON: DOKWAZA: LAST OF THE AFRICAN IRON MASTERS

Selections from Dokwaza: Last of the African Iron Masters, 1988, produced in cooperation with the Canadian National Office of the United Steel Workers of America This video documents a reenactment of a traditional smelt by Mafa ironworkers in LumZiver, Cameroon, led by master smith Dokwaza. They use a furnace type and process unique to the northern Cameroon and Nigerian border region, and no longer in use by the early 1960s. At the time of filming, Dokwaza was sixtyfive years old and had not fired a sme