AFRICA FILM PROJECT; NGONO AND HER PEOPLE Reel 1 · Part 1

Description

DRAMATIZED DOCUMENTARY: About a 9-year-old African girl, found by Protestant missionaries in the French Cameroons and reared in a mission school, who later marries a native teacher and returns to help her village. Reel 1: Ngono's father negotiates to sell her to Ngele as a child bride; she is mistreated by Ngele's senior wife and runs away. A woman missionary finds her in the jungle, takes her to the mission for treatment; missionaries decide to try to buy her freedom. Reel 2: Mission superintendent negotiates her release. Ngono grows up at the mission, studies nursing, and is courted by Eman, a former student; she refuses marriage, saying that she must return to her village. Eman visits her village, cures mental problem of Ngele's son, and stays to help. Reel 3: Ngono and Eman marry and return to Metet.

Collection

Harmon Foundation Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups