I come from Sierra Leone, West Africa. I’ve been in Germany since November 2014 and am part of the Kino Asyl team. Kino Asyl is a multicultural project through which I’ve learned a lot about different cultures from various countries. We chose the film Aminata because we wanted to show the challenges faced by a girl in Sierra Leone. I saw the film for the first time in January 2014 with friends on a small TV in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
This film from Sierra Leone deals with the problem of the early marriage of Aminata, the only daughter of poor parents. She is eager to go to school and get a Western education, but in her village only Islamic education is allowed for girls. At the age of 14, she is forced to marry the […]
