Taxi to Timbuktu

Documentaire
    Réalisé par Christopher Walker • Écrit par Christopher Walker
    Royaume-Uni • 1994 • 50 minutes • Betacam SP • Couleur
  • N° ISAN :
    non renseigné
Résumé

À travers l’histoire du Malian Alpha Gassana, un chauffeur de taxi new-yorkais, le film examine la situation des "réfugiés environnementaux" d’Afrique de l’Ouest, des travailleurs migrants forcés de travailler dans les pays riches pour survivre.

Alpha, a cabby in New York, comes from Batama, a village in the poorest region of Mali. Since the drought of 1973, the men of Batama have gone abroad to earn enough to keep the women and children alive.
In New York and Tokyo, they earn double of what they would in other cities. But not everyone can go to Japan. "In the past, we went abroad to keep the village alive. But today we are finding that abroad is closed. And if ‘abroad’ is closed, then we are all closed." says Alpha.

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