African Women in Cinema focus on : Women as Agents of Change

African Women in Cinema focus on :

Women as Agents of Change

Women as agents of change use myriad strategies for empowerment, sociopolitical activism and engagement, including leadership activism, mentorship, self-motivation, promoting education, empowering victims of domestic violence, participatory video training, among others.

Relevant articles published on the African Women in Cinema Blog are as follows (listing is ongoing):

 

The making of: Aïcha Macky, empowering girls through participatory video training
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-making-of-aicha-macky-empowering.html
 

Women, Leadership and CNA Afrique, Cinema Numerique Ambulant - Travel Digital Cinema 
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2022/01/%20women-leadership-and-cna-afrique.html
 

Raja Amari : She had a dream
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/03/recent-films-raja-amari-she-had-dream.html
 

Gentille M Assih : Sortir de l’ombre | Into the Light  
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/vues-dafrique-2021-gentille-m-assih.html
 

Lobe N’Diaye: La femme lionne | The Woman Lionness
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/02/lobe-ndiaye-la-femme-lionne-woman.html
 

Laurentine Bayala : Elections couplées de 2012, les femmes burkinabé en marche | Coupled Elections of 2012, Burkinabe Women on the Move 
http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2014/05/laurentine-bayala-elections-couplees-de.html
 

African Women in Cinema addressing democracy, citizen empowerment and free and fair elections
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/11/african-women-in-cinema-addressing.html
 

African Women and Cinema and Leadership
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2009/06/african-women-in-cinema-leadership.html 

World Radio Day. Ousmane Sembene's "Moolaade": the radio as a symbol of women's empowerment

Ousmane Sembene's "Moolaade": the radio as a symbol of women's empowerment

Radio is an important player and an essential part of maintenance and transition to peace. It is part of its agenda-setting function and provision of essential services to bring forward issues of concern, feature matters that deem attention from authorities and citizens, and give them salience.

UNESCO - World Radio Day

Modernity undermines patriarchy and films especially set in the village highlight this vulnerability, as often these features of modernity are foreign, western elements. The village is the signifier of the culture’s language, it is a metaphor, a symbol.

Exploring this concept in the context of the film Moolaade, Ousmane Sembene incorporates, the radio, which is an important means of communication for the village women and a source of knowledge about local as well as global issues. 

As the village patriarchy burns the radio in order to destroy the women's growing empowerment, as a symbol of opposition to female excision, the women throw their knives into the burning pile. 

Accountability Lab: YALI Women's Responsible Leadership Film Fellowship (Mali)

 

Accountability Lab: YALI Women's Responsible Leadership Film Fellowship (Mali)

 

In July 2021 the women filmmakers of Accountability Lab Mali’s YALI Women's Responsible Leadership Film Fellowship travelled across the country to discuss the feminist stories that inspired their films.
 
Zeinabou W. Mohamed Ali helmed the Yali Film School Fellowship project at the Accountability Lab Mali.

She had this to say about the project, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State:

The YALI Film School Fellowship is a 100% female project which aims to train women in Mali and Niger in the techniques of producing and directing short flms with themes that reflect the realities faced by Malian communities on a daily basis.

In Mali we have 10 young women from several regions of the country who have beneted from this apprenticeship grant.

The objective of the project is that the short flms serve as advocacy and awareness tools among the population of leaders to encourage them to adopt a positive behavior change.