The Last of the Nuba is the English-language title of German film director Leni Riefenstahl's 1973 Die Nuba, a book of photographs, published a year later in the United States. It was an international bestseller and was followed up by the 1976 book Die Nuba von Kau.

LENI RIEFENSTAHL DIE NUBA (The Last of the Nuba) From 1962 till 1977 Leni Riefenstahl had been living as the first white woman with a special permission issued by the Sudanese government in the remote valleys of the central Sudan among the mysterious Nabu tribes, had studied their way of life and recorded it on film in pictures of unusual ...

The People of Kau is the title of the 1976 English-language translation of German film director Leni Riefenstahl's Die Nuba von Kau, an illustrated book, published in the same year in Germany. The book is a follow-up to her earlier successful 1973 photo book Die Nuba. [1]

Leni Riefenstahl who in 1975 had spent sixteen weeks in a great heat among the Kau Nabu said: »It had been a time of almost unbearable difficulties and physical strain. Without the urge deeply rooted in me to chase after the unusual and beautiful …

The Austrian anthropologist S.F. Nadel reported that there should have existed 105 different Nuba languages, not dialects but different languages as there are in Europe. With these sensational pictures, Leni Riefenstahl raised an everlasting monument to this no warlike people in Africa.

Jun 5, 2017 · George Rodger’s black and white photographs are some of the first ever taken of the Nuba and Latuka peoples. But his color images are only now seeing daylight.

This classic work, whose documentary and artistic merits and contribution to cultural history make it a worthy companion to her equally famous study The Last of the Nuba (which deals with the Mesakin Nuba) was first published in 1976.Although the Nuba of Kau - anthropologists call them the "South East Nuba" - live little more than 100 miles ...

Jan 1, 1973 · The Nuba people are presented beautifully in this extraordinary book, packed with photo's and a text full of observations and passion. Leni Riefenstahl is a gifted photographer and amateur anthropologist - with a slightly dubious but intriguing Nazi past.