{"id":902,"date":"2010-12-27T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=902"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:32:33","slug":"waliden-children-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/waliden-children-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"WALIDEN \/ CHILDREN OF OTHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The film<em> Waliden<\/em>, which is a term that refers to an adopted child in the Bambara language, is a plea for better treatment of adopted children in Mali. Adoption has long had a place in traditional Mali, as in other parts of Africa, creating enhanced connections between families and intensifying the social network. But in modern practice it can also become a form of exploitation and abuse. Director Awa Traor\u00e9 was herself a <em>waliden<\/em> in her earlier years, and her film sheds light on the experiences of <em>waliden<\/em> victims of abuse that are rarely acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>In Bambara and French with English subtitles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film Waliden, which is a term that refers to an adopted child in the Bambara language, is a plea for better treatment of adopted children in Mali. Adoption has long had a place in traditional Mali, as in other parts of Africa, creating enhanced connections between families and intensifying the social network. But in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","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=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}