Moolaad%C3%A9

Moolaad magical protection is a 2004 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembne. It addresses the subject of female genital mutilation, a common practice in a number of African countries, from Egypt to Nigeria. The film was a coproduction between companies from several Francophone nations Senegal, France, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Morocco, and Tunisia. It was filmed in the remote village of Djerrisso, Burkina Faso. The film argues strongly against the practice, depicting a village woman, Coll, who uses moolaad magical protection to protect a group of girls. She is opposed by the villagers who believe in the necessity of female genital cutting, which they call purification.

Although the precise origins of Female Genital Cutting are unclear, the practice dates back to antiquity LightfootKlein 1989 Female Genital Cutting can be traced back as far as the second century B.C., when a geographer, Agatharchides of Cnidus, wrote about Female Genital Cutting on the western coast of the Red Sea modernday Egypt Mackie 1996. Based on the current geographic locations of Female Genital Cutting, the practice appears to have originated there with infibulation and spread southward and westward while diminishing to clitoridectomy Mackie 1996. Some surmise that female genital cutting is rooted in the Pharaonic belief in the bisexuality of the gods Meinardus 1967 Assaad 1980. According to this belief, mortals reflected this trait of the godsevery individual possessed both a male and a female soul. The feminine soul of the man was located in the prepuce of the penis the male soul of the women was located in the clitoris. For healthy gender development, the female soul had to be excised from the man and the male soul excised from the women. Circumcision was thus essential for boys to become men and girls, women Meinardus 1967, 38889 In the world, there are approximately 130,000,000 women who accept the female circumcision excision, that is about 2,000,000 women everyday. It is mainly popular in Africa, but the procedure is also practised on the Arabian Peninsula, mainly in Iraq and Yemen. The country in which it is most prevalent is probably Egypt, followed by Sudan, Ethiopia and Mali. In recent years, Egypt has introduced legislation to abolish female circumcision but the practice is still widely carried out.The circumcision is sometimes done by the girls mother and female relatives, moreover, the father must stand at the side of the door to protect this work symbolically. The young girl sits on a chair, restrained by other women. Then an old woman opens hers lip of vulva, fixes with the needle in the one side?, lets the clitoris entire dew come out?.

Source: Wikipedia