WINDHOEK– AfricAvenir is inviting everyone to the Namibian Premiere of the film ‘La Noire de (Black Girl)’ on Wednesday at the Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC).
The film is about a young Senegalese woman from Dakar named Diouana (Mbissine Thérèse Diop) who is hired by a French couple to be their nanny. She moves to France to live with the couple. Moving from Africa was a difficult decision but she is enthralled with the opportunity of living in France. She has dreams of buying expensive clothing with her wages. Until she gets her first pay check, she even walks around in spike heels.
She is stripped of her cultural identity and dissolved into a person of a lesser class whose sole function is to clean up after the household. Her disenchantment with her position leads to hopelessness. Until one day when Diouana decides to take matters into her own hands and ends her life so she can emancipate herself from the environment of slave-like captivity.
The film is directed by film maker and novelist Ousmane Sembène from Senegal. The screening will start at 18h30 and entrance is N$20.