Becoming a woman in Okrika [electronic resource] / by Judith Gleason, Elisa Mereghetti Tesser, and David Bellatalla ; produced by Kamel Film.
1991
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Becoming a woman in Okrika [electronic resource] / by Judith Gleason, Elisa Mereghetti Tesser, and David Bellatalla ; produced by Kamel Film.
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New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1991.
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English
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1 online resource (27 min.)
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Five females, fifteen to seventeen years old, undergo a traditional rite of passage that used to be a necessary prelude to marriage in Okrika. This sequence of events takes place in the village of Ogbogbo, which is part of the Okrika community of Ijo-speaking people who populate the Niger Delta in Rivers State, Nigeria.
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Previously released as DVD.
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