International young woman day - Wedding or school?

Duration: 
5 min
Country: 
Niger
Year: 
2012
Version: 
Director: 
Ramatou Doulla Harouna

 

Raya is a young girl from Maradi region. She had a suitor while she was in fifth grade. Between her mother’s will to take her out of school to wed her and her father who supports her, she was lucky to escape a precocious and forced wedding and goes on with her education at the Sarkin Yamma high school.

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