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Kolda
SNSenegalUpper Casamance
Our base. The town on the Casamance river where every road out of the region begins.
Senegal
Our home base. Most of what we film happens in Haute-Casamance, the southern region around Kolda.
By country
Villages in Senegal
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Diaobé
SNSenegalUpper Casamance
One of the largest weekly markets in West Africa. Traders arrive from four countries before dawn.
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Saré Yoba Diéga
SNSenegalUpper Casamance
A Fulani farming village where the day is measured by the herd, not the clock.
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Vélingara
SNSenegalUpper Casamance
The last Senegalese town before the Guinean border — and the first stop for everything crossing it.
Videos
Videos
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LanguagesSNSenegal
How to greet someone in Pulaar
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DocumentarySNSenegal
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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InterviewSNSenegal
"We rebuilt the dykes with our hands" — Fatoumata, rice farmer
Stories
Stories
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PortraitSNSenegal
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.
6 September 2026 · 8 min read
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ReportSNSenegal
Diaobé, before dawn
Trucks from Guinea, Mali and The Gambia unload in the dark. By seven, the whole thing is a city.
30 August 2026 · 11 min read
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LanguagesSNSenegal
What Pulaar does with time
There is no single everyday word for “week” in Pulaar. There are market days, and there is everything between them.
24 August 2026 · 6 min read
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CraftsSNSenegal
A loom, two sons, and a trade with no successor
Ousmane has been weaving for forty-one years. Neither of his sons intends to take over, and he says he understands.
16 August 2026 · 9 min read
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AgricultureSNSenegal
The rice that came back to Casamance
For twenty years the valleys were too salty to plant. Then a group of women started rebuilding the dykes by hand.
9 August 2026 · 12 min read