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No purification

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 ★ 00:57 ★ Category Films

Moolaadé is a very impressive film about the practice of female purification: genital circumcision. Four little girls run away from the purification ritual and seek asylum at Colle Ardo Gallo Sy, a woman who had prevented her own daughter to be genitally mutilated. Colle offers the girls Moolaadé (a spell of protection), but pressure on her increases when a lot of the village people turn against her.

Colle protecting the girls

Colle protecting the girls

Film director Sembene Ousmane shows with great precision how traditional—and, some say, religious—culture clashes with progressive, modern society values that slowly but firmly make their entrance in African countries. This film really moved me.