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Wangare, Diatta und Richter
17.01.2012: Fatou Diatta and Virginia Wangare
17.01.2012: Fatou Diatta and Virginia Wangare
The Dicourse on FGC/ FGM: The Film "Excision. Un thème pour tout le monde" and a Panel Discussion with Johanna Richter, Fatou Diatta and Virginia Wangare Greiner
Some feminists and anthropologist have suggested that the FGC debate is a case in which Africans ought to be allowed to argue this one out for themselves. In many parts of Africa and its Diasporas, this is precisely what people are engaged in doing: in village meetings, among small gatherings of friends, on TV, in newspapers, at NGO workshops, and on the internet, individuals and organizations are passionately discussing their positions on the practice of FGC and attempts at its elimination. The film which is shown during the lecture aims to give African people a voice and shows how FGC/FGM is discussed in Burkina Faso. In the panel discussion the film maker Johanna Richer and two African activists - Wangare Greiner and Fatou Diatta will discuss the issues of FGC/FGM and will compare the experience of different societies in which FGC is a issue of public debate and the women’s movement.
The Film "Excision. Un thème pour tout le monde"
Instead of presenting a "shock-video” on female circumcision, this film opens an empathic view toward those reasons given by the local communities of Burkina Faso. Not to advocate but to ask why this custom, still continues, and furthermore what will need to change… The population of Burkina Faso justifies FGM (female genital mutilation) by so called traditional reasons. 70% of the females are circumcised. Will it ever be possible to implement strategies against FGM, which are accepted also by the local population? Why does indigenous reality clash with Western Laws? What is the cause to continue anyhow, and will there ever be a solution?While integrating and respecting myths, beliefs, opinions on female genital mutilation, this documentary was shot in collaboration by an African/European film team in Burkina Faso. It reveals in a humorous way of those irrationals that drive traditions. Young girls, religious leaders, retired female-surgeons, magicians, fathers, sociologists - everyone has their say. Without imposing western ideologies this film reveals a so far unseen logic behind FGM. Not to advocate, but to stir a real discussion among African audiences, for which it originally was made. This film on this otherwise tabooed issue now travels successfully the back-roads of Burkina Faso in the native language Mooré. Moving as "mobile moving cinema" between modernity and tradition, it exposes various aspects, which are also unseen to Western audiences. Made the “burkinian way” - a charming, eye-opening document of the new African movement “Ciné Débat” (discussion cinema): L’excision – un thème pour tout le monde!
Johanna Richter is a PhD candidate in political science at the UNESCO chair of human rights education in Magdeburg and holds a scholarship at the „Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft“. For her PhD project, she focuses on the question how the medium „film“ can be used as a tool for awareness rising on harmful traditions such as Female Genital Cutting in rural Burkina Faso. Her research concentrates on “Cinéma Débat”, a movement where local NGO’s travel to the countryside in order to present films of social importance.
Virginia Wangare Greiner who comes originally from Kenya is the director of the Frankfurt based NGO Maisha. Maisha is self held organization of African Women living in Germany. It aims to organize African Women in Germany and improve their living condition and their integration in the German society.
Fatou Diatta (Sister Fa) is a hip hop singer who comes originally from Senegal and lives in Berlin Neukölln. She started her career in Senegal and was granted several awards. In 2006 she moved to Berlin. Fatou Diatta is engaged for a long time in campaigns against FGC in Senegal and works together with the well known Senegalise NGO Toscan.
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