Wandering Angels /

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Ott, Clara, director.

Language:

English

French

Wolof

Subjects (All):

Children's rights.

Education--Senegal.

Education.

Qur'an--Study and teaching--Senegal.

Qur'an.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Video Library, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

Montreuil : French Connection Films, 2017.

Language Note:

French, Wolof, Subtitles: English.

System Details:

digital

Summary:

"A year ago, my father entrusted me to the marabout so that I could learn the Koran. I only study one hour a day. As for the rest of the time, I beg. And if in the evening I don't bring back at least 600 francs, they tie me up and beat me. Once I didn't go back to my marabout, and my parents thought I was dead." Today, like little Moussa, thousands of vagrant children are roaming the streets of Dakar. The majority of them are little children who have escaped from their daara (Koranic boarding school), after suffering from mistreatment. The Senegalese civil society - intellectuals, artists, social workers, "modern" Koranic masters - want to go beyond preconceived ideas and collective resignation to engage in a deep reflection and offer a real debate on the origins and solutions to a problem that is getting worse everyday..

Credits:

Writer: Clara Ott Editors: Virginie Vericourt, Clara Ott Original Music: Jerome Rossi Narrator: Jake Day.

ISBN:

9781350442245

OCLC:

1392286721

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.