Diary of a Maasai Village, Part 1

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Secondary Title: : The Prophet's Village

Filmmaker Name: Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

Film Length: 50 min

Film Year: 1985

Duration: 46-75 min

Decade: 1980s

Series: Diary of a Maasai Village series

Color: color

Region: Africa

Subject: Food Ways and Subsistence

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The Prophet's Village examines the problem of maintaining enough cattle to supply milk and meat versus selling off cattle to raise money for maize, antibiotics and pesticides; cash is also needed to pay for legal fees for Rerenko, the Laibon's son.

About the Diary of a Maasai Village series

This series of five films by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies looks at daily life among the Maasai. The films are presented as a diary of a 7-week visit to a single village. The structure is episodic and the content dependent on various events or stories, some of which are developed through more than one film. The tapes can be used independently or together, to give an in-depth sense of Maasai life. The series includes the following five films:

Part 1: The Prophet's Village

Part 2: Two Ways Of Justice

Part 3: Two Mothers

Part 4: Two Journeys

Part 5: Nine Cows And An Ox