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
Description
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. This program 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 rituals but then refuses to complete them.
Note:Broadcast as an episode of the television program Under the sun; originally produced in 1993.
Videorecording.
Call Number:DT515.45.I33 .M66 2000Z VideoDVD
Credits:Photography, Alwin Kuchler, Simone Horrocks ; consultant, Titus Anyanwu ; anthropologist, Ibi Derekafa ; film editor, Rod Iverson.
System Details:DVD-R. This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Participant or Performer:
Narrator, Caroline Lee Johnson.