{"id":900,"date":"2010-12-27T22:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=900"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:34:04","slug":"me-broni-ba-my-white-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/me-broni-ba-my-white-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"ME BRONI BA \/ MY WHITE BABY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Me Broni Ba<\/em> is a fascinating, thought-provoking film exploring internalized colonial and racial stereotypes. In the streets, courtyards, and households of Accra, children of all social classes play with imported second-hand white baby dolls. Meanwhile, in the myriad beauty salons in Ghana, women pursue their fascination with braiding and with creating \u201csoft\u201d hair. In the second part of the film, a young girl tells of her move to the United States and her inability to keep her hands off the blond hair of her new classmates.<\/p>\n<p>In English and Twi with English subtitles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me Broni Ba is a fascinating, thought-provoking film exploring internalized colonial and racial stereotypes. In the streets, courtyards, and households of Accra, children of all social classes play with imported second-hand white baby dolls. Meanwhile, in the myriad beauty salons in Ghana, women pursue their fascination with braiding and with creating \u201csoft\u201d hair. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}