Moolaade

Director: Ousmane Sembène (Senegalese film director, producer and writer) he “father” of African films and as one of the most prolific “French-speaking” African writers in this first century of “creative” writing in francophone Africa

Characters

Collé Mercenaire Amasatou Ibrahima Ciré Bathily Amath Bathily Diattou, Oumy, Awa, Nafi Salba Hadjatou Dougoutigui → Village elder

graph TD
    Collé[Collé Gallo Ardo Sy] -->|Protects, Mother of| Amasatou;
    Collé -->|Opposed by| Villagers[Villagers who believe in purification];
    Collé -->|Provides protection to| Girls[Four little girls escaping ritual];
    Ibrahima -->|Engaged to| Amasatou;
    Mercenaire -->|interrupts| Ciré;
    Doyenne -->|Carries out| FGM[Female Genital Mutilation];
    Doyenne --> |Part of| Salindara;
    Diattou --> |Daughter of| Salba;
    Diattou --> |one of the| Girls;
    Ciré --> |husband of| Collé;
    Amath --> |brother of| Ciré;
    Amath --> Villagers;
    Hadjatou -->|first wife of| Ciré
    

Summary

set in a colourful Bambara village in Burkina Faso dotted with termite mounds, and a mosque made from clay

bilakoro

excision

Men insist on purification, but it is really women who enforce it — not just the fearsome women who actually conduct the ceremony, but ordinary women who have undergone it and see no reason their daughters should be spared.

salindara → women who perform the FGM

Burning of radios → parallel to book burning

whoever breaks that law will be killed by the moolaade

Whoever crosses this rope will be punished by the moolaade.

You have climbed over my head, I did not object, and now you want to shit on my head.