Moolaade

Moolaadé

The film, Moolaadé is based in a small town in Africa. The central theme of the movie is female circumcision. One of the main characters in the movie, Collé offers her home as a place of refuge for the young girls that do not want to get their genitals mutilated by the older men in the community. As a result, the men take away the radios of all the women and girls in the community which is their only link to the outside world. As a result of the circumcision quite a few of the young girls have died and so most of the African women decide to stand up against it. The movie is not only about the negative things going on, but it also shows the culture and daily lives of the people in the town. In the end the women achieve their goal and the circumcisions are put to an end.
This movie relates a lot to developmental psychology. Culture is defined as a “design for living,” the people in that culture had been doing female circumcision for centuries and didn’t know any differently. In the book it says that people do not begin to question their own culture until it seems harmful or they realize that members of another culture do things differently. The reason it took so long to put an end to it might have been because in the old days there were no radios, or TVs to find out about things going on in the outside world. The women now had different information about what is right and wrong not just what they have known all of their lives. Also mothers were losing their children because of this dangerous practice.