Bakoroman

Release Year
2011
Runtime
1h 2m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
Simplice Herman Ganou
Bakoroman

Leaving one's family at 7, 12 or 16 years old. Taking up residence in front of a shop, in a video store, outside a bus station. Learning to do drugs, beg, steal, flee, and fight. Making friends and enemies. Integrating into a new world. Five Bakoroman on the road from their village to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital city, in pursuit of a better life.

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