| Summary: | Gone to the Village is a film about the crucial role of female leaders in the social and political life in Asante culture over the past 500 years. Nana Afia Kobi was 111 years old when she passed away on November 14, 2016. She served Asanteman and Ghana for 39 years. Gone to the Village captures the collective mourning and the performed history of Asante in contemporary Ghana. The burial and final funerary rites of the Asantehemaa (Asante Queen) Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II in January and December of 2017, was the first time in 209 years a reigning Asante King performed the funerary rites of an Asantehemaa who was also his birth mother. Gone to the Village is a multifaceted and multidirectional documentary that chronicles the fusion of oral traditions, political authority and national unity with the visual, musical and performative arts of Asante.
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