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For the World Textile & Artisans project, I always wanted to go to Western Africa. In this part of the world, textile traditions are still very liveful, vibrant, and of a great variety. So I have decided to go to Burkina Faso, which brings together many of the know-how, to discover this land rich of crafts, landscapes and colors.
It was the first time that my feet touched Western Africa‘s ground and it was a special emotion that I will always remember. I have appreciated this engaging landlocked country, so far away from Parisian paved streets, far from anything I knew. A land still marked by the French colonization remains and yet a light, an energy so deeply African.
In Burkina Faso, also known as the “Land of Honest Men,” the memories I have left are the Ouagadougou‘s special atmosphere, this broad and extended capital city, the image of red soil, dusty roads and the strange calm of Bobo Dioulasso.
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Ouagadougou, broad capital city
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Bobo Dioulasso, indolent and colorful
