Babemba

2008

What do you hang your dreams on when all around you, everything is in ruins ? How do you reignite and let a youth shine that has been extinguished through apathy, that has been absent from its history ?

Africa is not only a land of massacres and desolation : there have always been islands of upright men, lucid, passionate, who left behind all fatalism and decided to change.

The historical figures, almost mythical, of Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice Lumumba are summoned on to the stage to remind everyone that the combat is daily, from the smallest gestures and it requires tenacity, persistence and perseverance to gain a renewal that is filled with hope.

Cast

Interpreters: Lacina Coulibaly, Lévy Tierema Koama, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Sigué Sayouba

Musicians: Sana Seydou Khanzai, Benjamin Collier, Djénéba Koné