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The harmful custom -in this case, female genital mutilation- must be challenged by the concerned people themselves, and not under moralizing foreign influence.
Ousmane Sembène, defender of sovereignties and independences : "We must change our behaviour, but we must decide for ourselves et by ourselves."
"A whole people dwells within me and I must bear witness to my time."
Thanks to Blessing Azugama, who enriched my ideas with her remarks on the possibility that the best duanjus carry a part of traditions !
"Yeelen" : man's initiatory quest, with and against his father, in a luminous sacrifice, while the woman transmits life and blood. Africa as spirit !
It's a little masterpiece of identity affirmation : if possible, watch it in the Malian version with subtitles ! We almost forget that the globalist cultural steamroller still exists...Beautiful sentence from one of the characters : "This source springs from a bottomless, inexhaustible well..."It's probably the bottomless well of traditional cultures that still has some nice surprises in store for us !
"Yeelen" meaning "light", the quote from the french writer
Edmond Rostand comes to my mind : "It's at night that it's beautiful to believe in the light...".
Indeed, we're in a period where planetary leveling is destroying rooted cultures, in Africa, Europe and elsewhere...
"Moolaadé" is an oral convention, but one that has legal standing, recognized by all since immemorial time.