FARAW! MOTHER OF THE DUNES Purchasing Options:Streaming Only Makeba's music and activism became

Makeba's music and activism became deeply intertwined with the African-American experience

glorious portrait on race and the roles women play—by pressure

the film touches upon the implications of machismo in a patriarchal society from the perspective of women

30 years after the end of slavery in Jamaica

The connection between the two topics of the film reveals the significant role that Haitian women of today play in an economy that has been bled dry

FARAW! MOTHER OF THE DUNES Purchasing Options:Streaming Only Makeba's music and activism becameFARAW! MOTHER OF THE DUNES DIRECTED BY ABBDOULAYE ASCOFAR MALI 1997 SONGHO WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 90 MIN SYNOPSIS Zamiatou is the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returns from prison mentally and physically destroyed. She struggles hard to survive in a poor and desolate area. She is ready to face anything to keep the family alive except prostituting her