Katy Léna N'diaye

[1][2][3][4][5] Born in Thies, Senegal, N'diaye grew up in Dakar.She has worked as a journalist for TV5 Monde, hosting a TV magazine Reflets Sud.[1][6][7] In 2003 N'diaye directed her first documentary Traces on mural painting by Kassena women in Burkina Faso.[2][8] In the documentary, three old women explain the content of the murals covering the reddish-clay huts to Anetina, a young unmarried woman.[4] Awaiting for Men documented three older women talking as they painted the town wall in Oualata, an oasis town on the edge of the Sahara Desert in southeast Mauritania.
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