Join the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and AFF for a free screening of the Nigerien film, The Wedding Ring by Rahmatou Keïta during our annual Black History Month program.

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Q&A with the director and lead actress, Magaajyia Silberfeld

About the Film

A student who hails from a prestigious aristocratic family, Tiyaa returns home to the Sultanate of Damagaran, in Niger, for the winter holidays. She is expecting the young man whom she met at university in France—who also comes from a wealthy family, not far from where she grew up—to make a formal proposal of marriage. While waiting for the handsome suitor, she shares her secret with her friends, learning the other women’s stories of love, marriage, and divorce, painting a compelling and revealing portrait of male-female relations in Sahelian society.
About Rahmatou Keïta

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