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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
Notes 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.
Form Streaming video
Author Kaboré, Gaston, 1951- film director.