Senegal: White On Black

  • Sénégal : Les Négresses Blanches
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1992
Format : Short
Running time : 22 (in minutes)
http://www.europeimages.com/en/programmes/1161-senegal-white-on-black/

They were born black like ebony but refuse their colour so that certain Africain women have recourse to all sorts of products more or less dangerous in order to become "whiter": some wind up mutilating themselves in order to get rid of their "color"...


Documentary
Travel & Discovery
Colored

Producer : ECRAN TOTAL
Director : Geneviève ROGER, Frédéric TONOLLI
Year : 1992
Versions : English / French
Nationality : France

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  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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