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Title
Wend Kuuni (God's Gift)
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015
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Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 68 min.)
Summary
Wend Kuuni is a landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to "return to the sources" of their culture, to recover a "usable" African past to solve the problems of the African present. Filmmaker Gaston Kaboré adapts the measured rhythms of traditional African storytelling to create an authentically African cinematic language. He retells an ancient fable about a mute, memoryless orphan, driven from his homeland, who is renamed Wend Kuuni ("God's Gift") by the grateful village which adopts him. Kaboré uses this simple tale to demonstrate that traditional Mossi values can still provide answers to many problems besetting modern Africa, fractured by rural dislocation, refugees and political conflict
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Title from title frames
Event
Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1982
Subject
Women -- Africa -- Social conditions
Rural women -- Africa -- Social conditions
Women, Black -- Africa -- Social conditions
Rural women -- Social conditions.
Women, Black -- Social conditions.
Women -- Social conditions.
Africa.
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
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Streaming video
Author
Kaboré, Gaston, 1951- film director.
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