Introducing Africa to High School and College Students

film gives viewers a glimpse of the brilliant martyr Steve Biko, who was murdered by the government because of his wide-spread spoken belief that blacks should be proud of who they are and should not let entrenched racism rob them of their self-identity. It is also one of the most heart-wrenching portrayals of the late-70s uprisings of school children in Soweto, who were protesting the racist curriculum given to them by schools.

MOOLAADÉ, dir. by Ousmane Sembene. This story takes place in a Senegalese village, where ancient customs like female circumcision co-exist with television and radio. The heroine of the film is an African woman whose painful experiences with sex and giving birth (two of her babies die during childbirth because they are unable to make a safe passage through her scarred vaginal canal) led her to refuse her own daughter's circumcision. Although this makes her daughter un-marriageable, it also means that 6 young girls who decide to flee their own circumcision find shelter and safety within her house.

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