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Ajube Kete
Docu-fiction
6 min
2005


Synopsis

Part documentary, part fiction, Ajube Kete follows a day in the life of a young girl in Kumasi, Ghana. As she works through her daily chores, off-screen adult voices correct and observe, revealing the quiet tensions between childhood, labor, and social expectation.

Ghana, Akan

Selected Screenings & Awards
• Ken Jacobs Student Award, Virginia Film Festival (2005)
• Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (2010)
• Safi Faye Memorial Program, Film at Lincoln Center (2023)