The four episode of Baarakètò (‘Working’) is now released!
It focuses on a man from Mali who works as a tailor in the suburbs of Paris, but would have rather been a soccer player.
Through his words in Bambara (and additional subtitles in English and French), we get to learn a bit about various aspects of his life:
His passion for soccer
How his family encouraged him to pursue being a tailor
His apprenticeship alongside his school studies
The pros and cons of being a tailor
How he sees his work connected to the older tradition of tailoring in West Africa
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