Yaa
"Three connected generations of lost Ghanaian women fight to find meaning from both their lives and that of their young African nation, as they awaken in a strange ancestral land." (https://mubi.com/films/yaa)
"Three connected generations of lost Ghanaian women fight to find meaning from both their lives and that of their young African nation, as they awaken in a strange ancestral land." (https://mubi.com/films/yaa)
"Three connected generations of lost Ghanaian women fight to find meaning from both their lives and that of their young African nation, as they awaken in a strange ancestral land." (https://mubi.com/films/yaa)
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
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