Yaaba

Name: Yaaba
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo
Genre: Drama
Released: 1989

1989DramaOtherBurkina FasoFrancophone

Bila is one of the few villagers willing to speak to Sana, an old woman everyone else calls a witch. When his cousin falls dangerously ill, Bila turns to Sana for help, testing what the village believes about her.

Director

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Availability

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Francophone cinema Burkinabe film 1989 Moore language village life Idrissa Ouedraogo African classic friendship

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Cultural context

Filmed in the Moore language in a real Burkinabe village, it captures rural West African life and the social cost of branding outsiders, especially older women, as witches.