Sources Of Disadvantion In 'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'

The danger of a single story is not just a title of the art form that I will be discussing, but a common source of vulnerability throughout the movies Moolaade and Tsotsi as well. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a young nigerian woman that discusses that as a young child, she was vulnerable to issues with image due to the literature that was available to her. The dangers of not knowing a full story is also damaging to the young women of Burkina Faso. Throughout Moolaade, the men and the elder women of the village force young girls to go through genital mutilation because it was a tradition that has been written about and performed for many centuries. Not knowing any better, the young women seemed to agree to the process until they heard from the

It is evident in the movie that Tsotsi only had a singular train of thought that was self destructive, which is similar to the ways that only listening to one side of a story is destructive to Chimamanda and the young women of Burkina Faso.

The women of Burkina Faso in the movie Moolaade were vulnerable to a destructive ritual called purification. The purification process included the young girls having their genitals mutilated by a knife. The process often lead to problems such as blood clotting and permanent scars as addressed by the young woman that the purification was performed on. The ritual was performed by the elder women of the village called the Salindana. This group of women tried to purify a group of young women that was under the protection of the main character, Colle. Colle herself was a victim of the old fashioned ritual, and did not want her daughter or the other young women that asked for her protection to go through the purification process. In order to protect these girls. Colle placed a strong protection spell that could only be broken by saying a single word. The Salidana could not touch the girls under Colle’s protection