Catalogue des films de « Oumar Ba »

Pour éviter de payer des cérémonies de mariage trop coûteux ou des dots exorbitantes, la communauté peulh autorise le rapt de la future fiancée. Cette tradition, le goufdé, a depuis dévié et elle est plus souvent mariage forcé que...

Polo has been wandering around Ouagadougou since he was a child. Now twenty-nine, he is the eldest of a gang of youths who live struggling to get by and to get stoned. A brutal plunge into a reality as rough as the tarmac missing from the streets...

In Senegal and throughout West Africa exist a multitude of ethnic groups, themselves divided into different casts. But what is astonishing is the ease with which, in this region, exchange takes place between ethnic groups. I find the simplicity...

À Saint-Louis du Sénégal, une rue singulière du Nord de l’île, la rue Lieutenant Pape Mar Diop, s’ouvre sur le fleuve. Quelques mètres de sable et de bitume : c’est ma rue. Chaque matin, le vieux S.Thiam, artisan-ferronnier en...

Je suis né et j’ai grandi en ville à Dakar loin du village de mes parents, qui appartiennent depuis des générations à l’ethnie des Diola, peuple du sud du Sénégal, dans la région naturelle de Casamance. Ni leur langue ni leur culture...

In January and February 2011, the No-Vox network co-organised with CADTM, ATTAC and others a bus caravan to bring hundreds of militants from grass roots movements to the World Social Forum in Dakar. Starting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, meetings,...

A "fast bus" is a kind of bush taxi in town. Symbols of Senegal, the orange, blue and white vans cut a fine figure as a work of art on wheels. Originally, the vehicles are Renault, Saviem or Voltigeur, dating back to 1960 – just as old as...

The Barbary Spit is a narrow strip of land in St Louis, Senegal. The age-old village of these ‘fish men’, fishermen of Ndar, is located on this peninsula. But a formidable enemy threatens the whole place: the sea.