The return of Sara Baartman [videorecording] / produced and directed by Zola Maseko ; Black Roots Pictures.

Title on container: Return of Sara Baartman1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.In English and French with English subtitles.Camera, Jonathan Kovel ; editor, Guy Spiller ; original music composed and produced by Pops Mohamed.Originally produced as a documentary in 2002.Continues the story told in The life and times of Sara Baartman.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Chronicles the return of the remains of Sara Baartman, a Black woman who had been exhibited as a freak in early nineteenth-century Europe. Her remains were returned to South Africa from France, where they had been kept at the Museum of Man (Museé L'Homme). On April 29, 2002, Sara's remains were officially handed back to the South African people at an emotionally charged ceremony at the country's Embassy in Paris and, on August 9 (National Women's Day), she was ceremonially buried on the banks of the Gamtoos River. Sara's repatriation involved years of lobbying by people in South Africa, including Professor Phillip Tobias, South African poet Diana Ferrus, and French senator Nicolas About who, when told that only a law could force the country to give up Baartman, introduced one.

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