Battle of the Sacred Tree

Battle of the Sacred Tree, is a 1995 Kenyan film written and directed by Wanjiru Kinyanjui. In a Kikuyu hamlet, traditional African beliefs clash with missionary fervor. There, a sacred tree that has an odd influence on everyone in its vicinity is the center of life. The tree is obviously merely a reminder of a pagan past to Christian women. Mumbi, the daughter of a traditional medicine man who has returned from the city with an abusive husband, is opposing their decision to cut down the tree. She captured "the most dramatic occasion of the Feeling of the Sacred Tree" in Polaroid pictures that brought the community together in therapeutic delight.

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