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 Lum-Ziver, 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 sixty-five years old and had not fired a sme