Moolaade is a 2004 film from Senegal. It takes place in a small Burkina Faso. It is about Colle, the second wife of her husband. Throughout the film she is also the protector of four young girls. The film addresses the subject of female genital mutilation and how it affects the women in the village. The film eventually culminates in the women revolting against their husbands and the men of the village and refusing to any longer be subject to the travesties of the mutilation.
In the film there is a symbol of the radios of the village and them being a form of knowledge for the women of the village. In order to suppress the women of the village the men force the women to throw their radios so that the women cannot use them as a means of combating the mutilation that is happening in the village.
The film also uses contrasting inner versus outer qualities throughout the film. For example the mercenary/ merchant of the village seems to be a womanizer and a bad sort of man. However, the wise men of the village are actual the less caring persons of the village and it turns out that the mercenary genuinely cares about the health of the women. The audience is left examining the characters more so in the play because they are not entirely as it seems.
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