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A grandmother named Monday Moses in Ogoloma, Nigeria is responsible for taking the young girls of the village through various rites of passage into womanhood that involve body painting, public breast examination and five weeks of confinement in "fattening rooms" so that they will be ready...

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Other Authors: Onwurah, Ngozi (Director), Gardner, Lloyd (Producer), Johnson, Caroline Lee (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1993.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Rites and ceremonies > Nigeria > Ogoloma.
Igbo (African people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Women > Nigeria > Ogoloma > Social conditions.
Puberty rites > Nigeria > Ogoloma.
Ogoloma (Nigeria) > Social life and customs.
Ibo (Peuple d'Afrique) > Rites et cérémonies.
Manners and customs.
Puberty rites.
Rites and ceremonies.
Women > Social conditions.
Nigeria > Ogoloma.
Documentary television programs.
Documentaires télévisés.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:A grandmother named Monday Moses in Ogoloma, Nigeria is responsible for taking the young girls of the village through various rites of passage into womanhood that involve body painting, public breast examination and five weeks of confinement in "fattening rooms" so that they will be ready for marriage. Documents these ceremonies and the crisis that develops when a chieftain's daughter who has lived in the city for some years, returns to participate in the ritual but then refuses to complete them.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed October 17, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (48 min.)
Playing Time:00:48:16