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

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
Uniform Title:Library of African cinema (Videodisc)
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)
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD

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