Wend Kuuni (God's Gift).
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1982.
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Wend Kuuni is a landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to "return to the sources" of their culture, to recover a "usable" African past to solve the problems of the African present. Filmmaker Gaston Kaboré adapts the measured rhythms of traditional African storytelling to create an authentically African cinematic language. He retells an ancient fable about a mute, memoryless orphan, driven from his homeland, who is renamed Wend Kuuni ("God's Gift") by the grateful village which adopts him. Kaboré uses this simple tale to demonstrate that traditional Mossi values can still provide answers to many problems besetting modern Africa, fractured by rural dislocation, refugees and political conflict.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kaboré, G. (2015). Wend Kuuni (God's Gift) . Kanopy Streaming.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kaboré, Gaston, 1951-. 2015. Wend Kuuni (God's Gift). Kanopy Streaming.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kaboré, Gaston, 1951-. Wend Kuuni (God's Gift) Kanopy Streaming, 2015.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kaboré, Gaston. Wend Kuuni (God's Gift) Kanopy Streaming, 2015.

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