Monday's girls / California Newsreel ; a Lloyd Gardner production for BBC-TV ; BBC Bristol ; series editor, Alan Bookbinder ; producer, Lloyd Gardner ; director, Ngozi Onwurah.

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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 for marria...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service BBC Bristol (Firm) California Newsreel (Firm)
Other Authors:	Gardner, Lloyd (Producer) Onwurah, Ngozi (Director) Bookbinder, Alan Johnson, Caroline Lee (Narrator)
Language:	English Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
Language and/or Writing System:	In English and Waikiriki with English subtitles.
Published:	San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel,c [2000?], 1993
Series:	Library of African cinema (Videodisc)
Subjects:	Igbo (African people) > Rites and ceremonies. Rites and ceremonies > Nigeria. Teenagers > Nigeria. Puberty rites > Nigeria. Marriage customs and rites > Nigeria. Women > Nigeria > Social life and customs. Nigeria > Social life and customs. Documentary television programs.
Genre:	Documentary television programs.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

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