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Caravane des Jeunes - Dokumentarfilm aus Mali, ( zur Info hier klicken)
deutsche Erstaufführung am 03.02.2010 im Pupille-Kino in FrankfurtUnser Dokumentarfilm: Caravane des Jeunes aus Mali
kurze Inhaltsvorschau: Karawane der Jugend
„Caravane de Jeunes“ ist ein Dokumentarfilm in Zusammenarbeit mit der Menschenrechtsorganisationen APDF und FORWARD Germany, der das Thema der weiblichen Genitalverstümmelung in Mali aufgreift und versucht, mit dieser uralten Tradition zu brechen. Dabei helfen sollen eine Gruppe Jugendlicher, ehemaliger Beschneiderinnen, sowie Journalisten, die in 7 Tagen in 7 verschiedenen Dörfern in der Region Ségou unterwegs sind, um dort Aufklärung zu betreiben, indem sie die Thematik direkt ansprechen und die Folgen der Verstümmelung verdeutlichen. Dies geschieht durch das Berichten von damit einhergehenden Erfahrungen und dem Zeigen eines weiblichen Torso vor und nach der Beschneidung.
Eine ergreifende Dokumentation über das Leben einer anderen Kultur mit ihrer eigenen Tradition und schädlichen traditionellen Praktiken, die für die körperliche und seelische Gesundheit der weiblichen Bevölkerung sofort zu beenden. Für diese Beendigung setzen wir uns ein HAND in HAND!!
Mali 2009, Farbe, 63 min., ab 12 J.
Regie.: Erica Pomerance
Co-Produzenten: l’Association des Droits des Femmes Maliennes (APDF), FORWARD Germany e.V.
D.: Souleymane Berthé, Mama Camara, Abdul Khader Cisse, Botschafterin Fatoumata Siré Diakité
Kamera: Erica Pomerance
Buch: Erica Pomerance
Verleih: FORWARD Germany e.V.
Mooladee - Der Film „Moolaade von dem weltberühmten senegalesischen Schriftsteller und Regisseur, Sembène Ousmane hat ohne Zweifel die Debatte über die Genitalverstümmlung bzw. weibliche Beschneidung voran gebracht. Der 2004 in Cannes prämierte Film ist ein Plädoyer gegen die Tradition der weiblichen Beschneidung oder „Salindas“ junger Mädchen in Afrika sowie den mutigen Kampf einer jungen Frau, Colle Ardo, gegen die aktuelle Praxis dieses Rituals. Vier kleine Mädchen suchen Schutz bei ihr. Sie berufen sich auf den alten Brauch des „Moolaade“, das einen unantastbaren Schutzraum bietet. Beschneidung oder Reinigungsritual gegen Zufluchstätte oder „Moolaade“ wird einander gesetzt.
Artikel von Dr. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana
Protestnote unserer Vorstandsfrau Dr. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana zum Selbstmord eines kenianischen Vaters aus Protest gegen die Zwangsverstümmelung seiner Tochter:
Kenya : Excision forcée et suicide
http://www.pressafrik.com/Kenya-Excision-forcee-et-suicide_a18042.html
27 décembre 2009
Das Dr. Sommer-Team der Jugendzeitschrift Bravo hat mit Unterstützung von FORWARD-Germany ein Schwerpunktthema über die weibliche genitale Verstümmelung veröffentlicht und dazu eine emailadresse eingerichtet.
Mit dem link auf unsere Jugendseite erfahren Sie/Ihr mehr.......
Hier auf den Klick finden Sie eine im Aufbau befindliche Literaturliste:
EMPATHY AND RAGE: 
Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature
Co-Edited by Tobe Levin and Augustine H. Asaah
- Market: Literature/Criticism/Black Interest
- BIC Code: D
- Report Code: NP
- Published: 5th April 2009
- Extent: 224pp, 234 x 153mm
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-9555079-4-6Price: £16.99
- Availability: World Rights
About the Book
Empathy and Rage - these words bracket a spectrum of feelings people confront when they think about the millions of women and girls who have undergone bolokoli, takhoundi, tukore, or gudni’in - names in local languages for a procedure that mutilates women’s private parts or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Contributors to the collection include: Anne V. Adams, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Muthoni Mathai, Marianne Sarkis and a translation from the French of contributor Herzberger-Fofana’s obituary placing it in the context of the work as a dedication to Sembene Ousmane, a true African pioneer of the exposure of this practice through film.
Key Selling Points
- This collection is a first - scholars analyse this subject as a theme in literature.
- In an unusual symbiosis, activism and scholarship join hands to hasten the end of this egregious human rights abuse.
- The collection examines representations in creative writing by African and African-Americans including Nura Abdi, Mariama Barry, Calixthe Beyala, Osman Conteh, Waris Dirie, Nurudin Farah, Fatou Keita, Fadumo Korn, Ahmadou Kourouma, Christian Mambou, Nawal El Saadawi, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Awa Thiam and Alice Walker. et al.
- In their efforts to end FGM, the governments of Germany, the UK, Italy and the European Union (Brussels) have drawn on the expertise of Tobe Levin who has written many articles and chapters for books on FGM.
- Contributors to the collection include: Anne V. Adams, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Muthoni Mathai, Marianne Sarkis and a translation from the French of contributor Herzberger-Fofana’s obituary placing it in the context of the work as a dedication to Sembene Ousmane, a true African pioneer of the exposure of this practice through film.
About the Editors
Tobe Levin is a Professor at the University of Maryland College in Europe, an adjunct to the University of Frankfurt, and non-resident Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. Levin became an activist against FGM in 1977 and co-founded FORWARD - Germany, a registered charity modelled on FORWARD UK, in 1998.
Augustine H. Asaah is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Ghana where he teaches African Francophone Literature and has pioneered research into African feminist literature and gender-based violence in African fiction.
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Beginning with its evocative opening sentence—"In the distance, a lion roared, deep and long, dismissing the night"—this impassioned, beautifully written memoir is a testament to the possibility of wedding literary prose to sophisticated political arguments. Korn grew up as a spirited girl in an Islamic Somalian nomadic tribe in the late 1960s. At seven she was forced to undergo female circumcision, in which her clitoris and labia minora were removed with crude utensils and her vagina sewn up. After chronic pain, illness and rheumatism set in, Korn went to live with her rich uncle, a government official in Mogadishu, until her circumcision-related ailments became debilitating; she was taken to Germany for medical treatment, and years later her circumcision was undone. Married to a German, Korn became involved in the European campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM). While the bulk of the book is a devastating and swiftly moving account of Korn's tragedy-filled life, it also persuasively argues that health workers must understand the power of traditional customs even as they work to end FGM. Written with German writer Eichhorst, this is a brutally honest, politically sensitive and bold addition to literature on global women's health. (Nov.)
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From Booklist
Korn's remarkable memoir traces her steps from her childhood as part of a nomadic tribe in Somalia, where she was born in 1964, to her position as a spokesperson against FGM--female genital mutilation. She herself was circumcised, and sewn back up, or infibulated, at age seven. Touted as an "ancient tradition," the brutal procedure can lead to infection, chronic ailments, and loss of fertility. In Korn's case, the resulting infection led to severe joint disintegration. Her parents sent her to relatives in Mogadishu while she received treatment; from there she went to a hospital in Rome, then a clinic in Germany, where she endured operations to straighten her fingers and toes. Only after her marriage, and corrective surgery to be "opened," did she experience urination or her periods without pain. Now a German citizen, Korn helps to reeducate young African women about their societal status without this horrific procedure. Deborah Donovan
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- Women's Studies in Europe: Women's Studies in Europe v. 20, No. 3 & 4 (Women's Studies Quarterly) von Tobe Levin und Angelika Koster-Lossack von Feminist Press at The City University of New York (Taschenbuch - März 2001)
