Yaba Badoe, an Africa woman took five years
made her first documentary film “the witches of Gambaga”. She says, “I wanted
Ghanaians and other Africans, to hear what has happened to women who have lived
to tell their tales.””
The Witches of Gambaga is the
extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in
Northern Ghana. Painful experience and insight come together to create an
intimate portrait of the lives of women ostracized by their communities.
Geoff Andrew, who is from film critic British Film Institute criticized, “An admirably unsensational but powerfully affecting reminder of the
terrible influence still wrought by superstition on the lives of so many women.”
During the process of filming, Yaba met difficulties on getting
permission of shotting. And she also says that as a woman to do a filmmaker or
even working in Africa is dangerous, but many people help her to finish this
film and special thanks to the actresses telling her story.
