The Witches of Gambaga | A documentary film by Yaba Badoe

A film by Yaba Badoe 2013-05-08T14:52:14Z /feed/atom/ Yaba Badoe /?p=885 2013-05-08T14:52:14Z 2013-05-08T14:47:19Z

[more]]]>Here’s an old review of The Witches of Gambaga I’ve just come across. It’s well worth a read because the blogger has visited Gambaga and antagonised the chief while she was there!

http://planet-dissi.de/?cat=1863

Thanks for the great review planet dissi

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0 Yaba Badoe /?p=875 2013-04-25T16:45:04Z 2013-04-25T16:26:44Z

[more]]]>It seems one of the motives behind the recent spate of ‘witch’ burnings in Papua New Guinea is a desire to usurp women from their land.

This article in the New York Times is very enlightening:

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/women-tortured-killed-as-witches-in-papua-new-guinea-in-2013/

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0 Yaba Badoe /?p=860 2012-11-21T17:25:24Z 2012-11-21T17:25:24Z

[more]]]>I’ve just returned to London after attending Afrikamera in Berlin. The theme of this year’s festival was women in front and behind the camera. Here’s a report on the festival by African-American academic, Beti Ellerson:

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/report-on-afrikamera-2012-women-on-and.html

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0 Yaba Badoe /?p=865 2012-04-19T13:06:15Z 2012-04-19T13:00:30Z

[more]]]>Here’s an interview with Collective Eye, the new distributors of DVDs of The Witches of Gambaga in the USA

http://collectiveeye.org/spotlight/yaba-badoe.html?utm_source=Collective+Eye%2C+Inc.+Educational&utm_campaign=9169009fdd-April_2012_Newsletter4_17_2012&utm_medium=email

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0 Yaba Badoe /?p=852 2012-04-05T11:32:51Z 2012-04-05T11:32:51Z

[more]]]>Check out these incredible photos of ‘witches’ at the Gambaga camp and Kpatinga taken by Ghanaian photographer, Nyani Quarmyne. They are very good indeed.

http://nyani.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Witch/G0000ZcShI8re9l4/I0000_iDhWlA1XyA ]]>

0 Yaba Badoe /?p=841 2012-03-22T14:20:39Z 2012-03-22T14:20:39Z

[more]]]>I was invited to show The Witches of Gambaga at a Women’s Things seminar in Orkney to celebrate International Women’s Day. I had a great time with my old school friend, now county archeoleogist of Orkney, Julie Gibson, who organised the seminar. About 50 of us spent the day mulling over folk tales – From Goddess to Witch: the Declining Fortunes of Women in Orkney Folk Tradition, women magicians and shamans among the Vikings and then Orkney Witchcraft Trails of the 17th century. A veritable feast of gender and justice over the ages! Below is a link to Radio Orkney’s feature on the seminar. It’s the second item in:

http://soundcloud.com/radio-orkney/tullimentan-march-2012

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0 Yaba Badoe /?p=830 2012-03-09T15:16:19Z 2012-03-09T15:16:19Z

[more]]]>Amina Mama will be presenting and discussing The Witches of Gambaga at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco on Saturday 10th March at 10am.

http://www.moadsf.org/visit/calendar.html]]>

0 Yaba Badoe /?p=822 2012-02-20T17:44:36Z 2012-02-20T17:44:36Z

[more]]]> Fantastic news! The Witches of Gambaga has just been short-listed for the One World Media 2012 Documentary Award!

Check out the website: http://oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/shortlist

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0 Yaba Badoe /?p=817 2012-01-25T16:02:22Z 2012-01-25T16:02:22Z

[more]]]>Here’s an interesting review of The Witches of Gambaga by Kathy Stewart.

http://www.subtitledonline.com/special-features/women-and-film-in-africa

I was a keynote speaker at the conference on Women and Film in Africa, which was held at the University of Westminster at the end of last year.

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0 Yaba Badoe /?p=813 2012-01-23T11:23:15Z 2012-01-23T11:23:15Z

[more]]]>The screening of the Witches of Gambaga at the British Film Institute on Saturday afternoon was fantastic. The documentary played to a full house and ‘Delwande’, a film from Burkino Faso about a woman accused of witchcraft that followed the screening, made for a great programme and an excellent discussion afterwards. Thank you every one who came and made the afternoon such a success.]]>