By Paul Samba/Chinepoh Cosson
“Rebel Pilgrim” exposes the effects that polygamy and forced marriage has on our families. It depicts the story of Leyonga a seventeen years old girl born into a polygamous home. She is very studious and dreams of going to the university someday, getting a good job in the city afterward and taking care of her mother Bisona whom her father Tita mostly ignores financially. She just obtained her ordinary level certificate and her father wants to marry her off to his friend old enough to be his grandfather as this will enable him to pay the bride price of his fourth wife. Will Leyonga succeeds in her dreams of going to the university? Will her father succeed to marry her off to his friend from whom he has already collected part of the bride price? In 2018 at the Écrans Noirs Festival, the film was already honored as best Cameroonian and Central African movie.
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