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...cage" to a confident woman whose new start in life was tragically cut short. Brown stitched together two years of research with her own experiences of Diana, whom she met several times in the 1980s. "I ended up really liking Diana," says Brown. "She was a complicated girl with deep wounds and could be very vindictive when she was crossed. But she was also authentically compassionate and caring." Diana's "rare combination of great beauty and intense unhappiness," says Brown, "made her a figure that everyone wanted to protect and love. We miss...
AWARD-winning Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène -- considered the father of African cinema for his 1965 movie Black Girl, the first African feature film--was more influential than most politicians. His warm, internationally acclaimed films included Xala and Moolaadé, the story of a woman who tries to shield a group of girls from genital mutilation. A former dockworker and novelist, he turned to film at age 40 to reach Africa's largely illiterate masses and co-founded the biannual FESPACO film festival, called the Cannes of Africa...
...height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past - her desertion by her mad mother, the years she spent in her grandmother's brothel (no, she was never a working girl, though that seems to be the only indignity she was spared), her time as a street singer, her rise to drug and drink addled international fame, her inevitable decline and early death from cancer. Considerable attention is paid to the great love of her life, Marcel Cerdan (Jean-Pierre Martins...
...longer. Neema, 24, now happily married to a supermarket owner and comparatively affluent, actually misses her days as an unmarried girl. That's because back then, she was the highest-paid woman in Siwa, earning more than $250 a month - more than most local men - as the star employee of Siwa Womens' Native Artisanship Development Initiative. The company was the brainchild of Cairo entrepreneur Laila Neamatalla who, together with her brother, leading environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla, have adopted a unique approach in their effort to plug Siwa into the global economy - the heritage hotels and local industries they have built...
...Siwi women have traditionally been kept behind closed doors or entirely concealed under flowing robes during rare ventures into town. The fact that they outnumber men in this conservative patriarchal society has made marriage the key to a woman's independence - unlucky was the girl who remained a spinster in her father's or brother's home, humbly tending to the needs of the other men and women in the family...