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Si-gueriki, la reine-mère = Queen mother / California Newsreel presents ; un film de Idrissou Mora Kpaï ; ecrit par Idrissou Mora Kpaï ; produit par Jean-Marie Teno ; une production Les Films Raphia.
LIBRA VHS PN1995.9.W6 S458 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Multiple languages
- Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Borgu (Benin and Nigeria)--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Benin--Social conditions.
- Documentary films--Benin.
- Documentary films.
- Social conditions.
- Benin--Social conditions--21st century.
- Benin.
- Borgu (Benin and Nigeria)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Borgu (Benin and Nigeria).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (63 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Queen mother
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : California Newsreel, [2003]
- Language Note:
- In Bariba (Berba) and French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Documentary about Mora Kpai's return to his Borgu home in Northern Benin after a ten-year residence in Europe. This film is about the lives of his mother and sisters which had previously been invisible to him. His mother is the "queen mother" of the Borgu people, and this film explores the changes resulting from colonization and modernisation that have weakened the role of female authority considerably. The filmmaker's sister, Adama, has divorced her husband and returned with her six children to support herself as a single mother selling cloth in the marketplace. With the current emphasis on the key role of women in development and on using traditional structures as a basis for progress, the role of the si-gueriki could become reinvigorated if she uses her authority to struggle for women's schooling, planned parenthood and AIDS education.
- Credits:
- Co-producers, Carl Ludwig Rettinger, Arouna Sacca Mora Kpaï; photography, Alexandra Kordes; music, Marianne Entat.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 56347009
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