Marie Michael Library

Title

Lwito (Light)

Length

29:03 min.

File No

936

Format

DVD

Description

Twelve-year-old Lwito is visually disabled and lives with her brother Joel in a village. Lwito has always been told that she cannot go to school because of her disability. Joel teaches Lwito everything he learns from school. A new school teacher arrives in the village and he is impressed by Lwito’s intelligence and tries to get her admitted to school. The school’s headmaster does not believe in inclusive education and refuses to listen. The arrival of a music activist with albinism motivates the villagers and the school teacher to join together and fight for the right to education of a girl child with a disability. Executive producer, producer and director: Musola Cathrine Kaseketi.

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

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