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A documentary channel from Kolda, Senegal
Discover Africa at the pace of its villages
Stories, traditions, cooking and everyday lives — filmed where they happen, told by the people who live them.
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Five in the morning in Saré Yoba Diéga
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Daily lifeSNSenegal
Diaobé market in 60 seconds
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Daily lifeSNSenegal
Diaobé: the market that wakes four countries
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FoodSNSenegal
One pot, three hours, twelve people
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CraftsSNSenegal
The last weavers of Kolda
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The long read
The woman who decides when the village eats
At five in the morning, Aïssatou lights the fire before anyone is awake. Nobody argues with the time she sets.
By Amadou6 September 20268 min readSNSenegal
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Where we film
We started in Haute-Casamance, around Kolda, and we are following the roads that leave it — into The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Mali.
Real coordinates · full interactive map in preparation
Kolda
SNSenegalUpper Casamance
Our base. The town on the Casamance river where every road out of the region begins.
Diaobé
SNSenegalUpper Casamance
One of the largest weekly markets in West Africa. Traders arrive from four countries before dawn.
Saré Yoba Diéga
SNSenegalUpper Casamance
A Fulani farming village where the day is measured by the herd, not the clock.
Vélingara
SNSenegalUpper Casamance
The last Senegalese town before the Guinean border — and the first stop for everything crossing it.
Basse Santa Su
GMThe GambiaUpper River Division
Where the Gambia river narrows and the ferry still decides what time you arrive.
Gabú
GWGuinea-BissauGabú region
The old capital of the Kaabu kingdom. The stories here are older than the borders.
MandinkaThe Gambia, Senegal
Abaraka
[ a-ba-ra-ka ]
- Meaning
- Thank you
- In use
Abaraka baake.
Thank you very much.
From the fire
What the village eats
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Thieboudienne
Rice, fish and vegetables cooked in one pot. The national dish, and the reason lunch takes three hours.
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MLMali
Maafe
Groundnut stew, thick enough to hold a spoon upright. Every family swears its version is the original.
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GWGuinea-Bissau
Caldo de peixe
A fish broth with palm oil and lime, eaten with the hands and a lot of bread.
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How to greet someone in Pulaar
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