Teenage Pregnancy in Patrick Martinet's Dia, à qui la faute

Abstract In African societies, given existing social norms, teenage pregnancy transforms the life of the unmarried girl in undesirable ways. In this article, I interrogate representations of this phenomenon in francophone African film. In particular, I analyse the status of the pregnant girl through Patrick Martinet's narrative in Dia, à qui la faute , a Burkinabe film that chronicles the imagined life of a young girl. Framing the study in feminist theory, I center on how the cinematic representations of pregnant girlhood mirror the misogyny of patriarchy in African society.