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Barakeden, les Petites Bonnes de Bamako (2015)

Name: Barakeden, les Petites Bonnes de Bamako
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-06-11T16:32:54+02:00
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Documentary | 57 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 57 minuten

Alternative title: Barakeden, the Little House Maids of Bamako

Country: Mali

Directed by: Adeline Gonin

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Barakeden, les Petites Bonnes de Bamako plot

'Barakeden' means 'little housemaid' in Bambara, the national language of Mali. To urban Malians, that term sounds like an insult. Many young girls leave their villages to serve families in the capital. They often work more than 15 hours a day for starvation wages. They are often treated very badly by their employers and by the townspeople: abuse, unpaid wages, rape, etc. In this documentary we follow Oumou, who left her village when she was fourteen to work as a domestic worker in Bamako.