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Liberian documentarian
Nancee Oku Bright
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipNew York City
Alma materOxford University
Occupations
  • Liberian
  • documentary filmmaker
  • director
  • producer
Notable workMothers of Steel (Book), America's Stepchild (Documentary)

Nancee Oku Bright is a Liberian documentary filmmaker, director and producer based in New York City. She is Chief of the humanitarian division of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Life

Nancee Oku Bright gained an MA degree and a doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford University. Her PhD, on Eritrean refugees in the Um Gargur refugee camp in Sudan, was published as a book in 1998.

Bright has worked as a journalist, writing for the BBC, several British newspapers, Vogue, Newsday and the Miami Herald. She has made short ethnographic documentaries on refugees in Sudan and life in Liberia. Her PBS documentary Liberia: America's Stepchild (2002) examined the causes of the First Liberian Civil War.

Works

Books

  • Mothers of Steel: The Women of Um Gargur, an Eritrean Refugee Settlement in the Sudan, Red Sea Press, 1998

Films

  • Liberia: America's Stepchild, 2002

References

  1. ^ "Nancee Oku Bright" Archived 2019-08-01 at the Wayback Machine, AFF.
  2. "Mothers of steel: the women of Um Gargur, an Eritrean refugee settlement in Sudan", Oxford University Research Archive, 1992.

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