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| TITLE: |
Faraw [videorecording] |
| ADDED TITLE: |
Haramuya [videorecording] |
| PUBLISHED: |
New York : ArtMattan Production ; c1997. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
2 videodiscs : sd., col. , 4 3/4 in. |
| NOTES: |
1. Faraw -- 2. Haramuya |
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Faraw recounts twenty four hours in the life of a woman in Songhoi country. Zamiatou, the mother of three young children, is fighting for survival in a town in northeastern Mali, on the edge of the desert. Her husband is too weak to work and her children are exasperated by their situation of poverty. Life is very hard in the devastated, almost desolate region haunted by the specter of drought. Zamiatou endures many ordeals, refuses to put her daughter into prostitution and finally gets help from her old friend Morou, who lends her a doneky and a few water skins. -- Haramuya- In Ouagadougou, the wealthy reside in the modern section of the city, while the poor live in poverty-stricken surburbs. Through the family of Fousseini, a Muslim firmly attached to his faith and traditions, HARAMUYA draws a picture of an Ouagadougou caught between modernism and traditionalism. Fousseini tries to take care of his family according to the old precepts and the code of honor inherited from his ancestors. One of his sons is a cinema projectionist and supports all the family against the will of his wife. The other son idles around all day long in Ouagadougou, looking for girlfriend. |
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