Is What They Learn Worth What They Forget (1986)
47m
Running Time
January 1, 1986Release Date
Is What They Learn Worth What They Forget (1986)
47m
Running Time
January 1, 1986Release Date
Plot.
Shot in 1986, the film presents scenes from the everyday life of a Mbororo pastorialist family living on the outskirts of Garoua, by then, the biggest town in Northern Cameroon. It documents the gradual sedentarisation and Islamisation of the Mbororo and presents rituals, chants, dances, healing practices as well as the transmission of traditional knowledge about medical plants and local religious beliefs.
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