Reportage evening: Gnonnôu – Woman

Thursday 15 March at 8 PM / Free entry

Following a roundtable discussion on the status of African women with director Agnès Maritza Boulmer and the association Afriqu’elles (Strasbourg-based association of African women entrepreneurs)

Unlike other countries in West or East Africa, or indeed other developing countries, Benin is a country rooted in the Vodun tradition, which serves as a kind of «tradition» to which many men and women refer, the country's cosmogony...

This tradition seems to justify many injustices, discrimination, and suffering endured by women, even though it affirms the complementary nature of men and women as necessary for the development of any society worthy of the name.

Through a journey across the country, meeting different populations – Fon, Peul, Bariba, Yoruba… this film aims to understand what observations can be made, but also what leverage could perhaps, in the long term, allow things to evolve harmoniously for women who have been toiling and struggling for so long, seeing their situation even degrade further, with no respect for so-called traditional precepts…

Among these levers lies the gender approach, a theory that promotes an objective perspective of the living conditions, needs, and possibilities, the opportunities that women and men should benefit from, and which aims for equity, which should ultimately lead to parity.