African Gaze: Woman
(Unsettling the Narratives: Women, Film & Positioning of African Woman of the Future)
Warsaw, Poland
Unsettling the Narratives: Women, Film & Positioning of African Woman of the Future, host: Dr Ezinne Ezepue, guests: Wanjiru Kinyanjui (filmmaker, writer, jury and curator at the festival), Branwen Okpako (director, Return to Chibok), Babetida Sadjo (director of Hematoma, actress in Our Father the Devil)
Description:
African proverb says, “until lions have their own historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.” These words encapsulate the essence of this panel’s exploration: Unsettling the Narratives. The history of women in Africa is a narrative marked by double colonization – first by Western colonial powers and then by the patriarchal order post-colonialism. Colonialism, often interwoven with religious influence, wrought significant changes in African societies, empowering men, redefining labour dynamics, and relegating women’s roles to be traditional and seemingly insignificant. This transformation resulted in women’s exclusion from various careers, effectively denying them opportunities to effect change. The fieriness that once defined pre-colonial and colonial African women gave way to a prescribed identity for postcolonial women, whose untold stories and unsung victories remained hidden, much like the lions in the proverb.
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