Pray The Devil Back To Hell Analysis

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Prof. Sanjay Barbora Wungreithan Awungshi
Roll No- G2015PC013 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati.
Submitted on- 29th October 2015 Pray the Devil back to Hell. (2008)
Directed by: Gini Reticker
Genre: Documentary Film
Cast: Janet Johnson Bryant, Etweda Cooper, Vaiba Flomo, Leymah Gbowee, Asatu Bah Kenneth, Etty Weah

Liberia’s white clad Heroines.
Gini Reticker’s documentary film ‘Pray the Devil back to Hell’ chronicles around a group of fearless women who come together, putting away religious differences to work tirelessly to end a bloody civil war and restore peace in their country of Liberia. It revolves around the inspiring story of Liberian women who took on the Warlords and the regime of Dictator Charles Taylor during the civil war and succeeded in bringing peace to a once war torn country.
The movie begins with captivating art illustrations
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Clad in white, these Liberian Heroines give humanity new hope and new faith. That anything really is possible, that happy endings do really exist. Unarmed, yet unshaken these women were able to end a war, without the use of any weapons, but by simply using peaceful means these Liberian heroines overcome the brutalities of the past and not only pray the devil back to hell but locked him there for good these strong, and powerful women of Liberia came out from this stronger than ever, more powerful than ever but also empowered women in a war plagued country in a way that has never been done before. These women of Liberia go down in the book of history for leaving their mark in the 21st century, a century plagued by discrimination against women, these Liberian women clad in white take women empowerment to a whole new level, telling one of the rarest of stories of how a group of women ended a war, that was started by

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