Thursday, August 20, 2009

Speech For Every Occasion

PROLOGUE

As usual, the train leaves with 10 minutes late. A young man collapsed on the bench, the snowcapped Pyrenees shine above the old buildings, we pass Lourdes and its ugliness sacred. Horses graze at the small airport of Tarbes . Dionysius, a friend knocked down by a bout of malaria contracted during a stay in Cameroon , probably just fall asleep after the morning shift of nurses ... The train stops in the countryside, the loudspeaker announces a herd of goats on the tracks. I see the Tuareg private land and water Niger , come and explain their cause, but no, the controller comes, the Tuareg regained their place in the article in Le Monde dated 27 February and the train restarts. I look at the map of the Niger , just above the Burkina Faso where I'm landing in a few days. I want to find in the country who can tell me the story that mix of bandits, defenders of freedom of movement to nomads and freedom activists of expression for people whoever they are ...
Toulouse, I submit myself to a little ritual, the purchase of a palm tree well caramelized in a quarter of an hour, next match. Here I am again stuck in a seat TGV behind a large male sweat like a horse after the Grand Prix de Pau . I see only the tops of skulls of a uniform brown color, I hear rumors of greasy paper, conversations between passengers edgy, yet the train does not coughed nor slows down, he slipped quietly back on track ignoring crisis. The eternal question "where are you" fuse laptops, small words are exchanged. Why so many
civility displayed and why so many dogs, a dog just passed, followed by a gun, it starts to feel anything other than civility ... Narbonne approach, large flat vineyards, its clusters of scrub, false ochres and sunshine. Region Languedoc-Roussillon spreads its pub red and yellow on gray iron of its trains, the sale, subdivision continues to mount its blocks in the plain grid of Cypressus ... Bezier , 2 min stop, red berets on the platform, older women dressed in big low and permed hair ... of young people sitting on their bags, smiling in front of them watching their horizon blocked. Subdivisions are increasingly dense. All these efforts to become well-housed smoke loans too expensive for those who believed in the mirror of their progress tended developers. Here
ponds, gulls, pines and oil tanks that announce Montpellier. The sign of Foirefouille must reassure handlers. I do not want to be reassured or worried, like the heroes of Keith Gessen , these young people sad and worried "to be free, in good health, grown and used to do nothing "... The individual or collective failure is it more bearable if it has a policy or practice rather more bearable if the only concern is to manage the purchase of his new car? ... Can we compare the incomparable not and that's where lies the potential for harm and defense system neoliberal .
A Nimes, the road is rails Raised flush leaving ugly buildings, their owners are still thousands of acres around where they can squeeze the juice speculative to death. TGV In this brings me closer Burgundy, family stays, I go looking for the bar car, but the bar is not open, it was more profitable to me whispers controller ... passengers remain silent.
Landing Ouagadougou, first impressions, dust, heat, life and commerce in the same street, noise, motorcycles, cries, smiles, conversations, large packages on their heads wrapped, knotted babies in the back ... the liveliness active but also the infinite resignation in his eyes, courage, selflessness in the repetition of gestures, nonchalance and elegance, but behind these first impressions and pictures, I'll discover a little of both a strong social conscience in these individuals with great generosity and an amazing capacity for invention, qualities needed to resist formatting and propaganda of large multinational companies which one feels the presence in the capital .... to follow.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Hair Color Simulation






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March 4, 2009, arrival at Ouagadougou airport in the afternoon. Djibril, beckons me after having deciphered cardboard that I tend to overreach! It is a tall man, very smiley, contact is made very quickly. We exchange news about his nephew, living in Paris, I know first trip to Burkina ago over fifteen years ... we come home, he rented a villa, located 5 km from the downtown but we are still in the urban fabric, Ouagadougou being extended over tens of kilometers ... Djibril found, for my first two nights in the capital, an empty house next to hers, their house being too small to accommodate me; a double bed and a bathroom with running water! That modest but awesome. It is very hot, the house belongs to the owner of his house is not rented, there would be work to do ...












The day ends Fespaco, the African film festival and has held every two years in Ouagadougou, I have very little time to smell the atmosphere of As far as I'm also starting to prepare my Sindou, a large village located 500 km west Ouagadougou where another family waiting for me. Friend understood my curiosity Fespaco and offers me to take me there. Djibril do not go out much at night he works on his records, he is a veterinarian and has created his NGO for distributing pharmaceutical products and advice to farmers and local agriculture.
It straddles, Ami and me, a motorcycle and "we stood in line," but there are more seats, we run into another room but the film, "Fire Morange" We are disappointed, many themes together and dialogue hollow ... we comfort with a drink in a tent, Ami told me what did not go cinema for eleven years! It is already confidences among women, and are fun questions that we ask tomorrow's children!
She leaves very little, she was surprised to have changed his life since her marriage, she went much, knew the bars of the capital. She was born into a wealthy family and married only after 30 years, she admits she was very blessed with her and she did not want to leave the comfort.

















During the day, Ami had unearthed for me a place in a small bus leaving for Sindou, chartered by an association of women from this village and that there were going to celebrate the International Women's Day, March 8.

Departure for Sindou March 6th, two days after my arrival in Burkina Faso. Are stacked luggage, you sweat miles long, women have fun with my astonishment, I was pampered! These women live in Ouagadougou, they have for the most part, a job or a husband who works and some, including the President, Aceytou have established their trade in fashion clothing or cosmetics ... apparently successfully. I learn that two of them go regularly in the neighboring countries, Mercedes (new!) Up to Dakar sometimes to find new products that try their clients. Apparently, it is a solidarity group that relies on family and cultural ties in addition to ethnic solidarity. They speak Diula them. In Burkina Faso, there are 4 main ethnic groups and languages, the Duilas, the Mossi, the Fulani and Senufo ...
They asked for me to take my little digital camera, in their most beautiful clothing feast day of the woman requires.

links to not miss a site
http://ouaga-ca-bouge.net/ original and interactive .. .
blog: http://axelderriks2.blogspot.com/ photos in black & white ...