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1080 Film and Television Ltd
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ENGLAND
“The Man Who Stopped the Desert”
Copyright 4th Feb 2011 PA 1-761-818
Narration in large font
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MUSIC
ALL tracks
original DAVID
POORE unless
stated otherwise
FADE UP
WOMAN ON HILL
MIX TO SUNRISE
MORPH TO YOUNG
MAN
FADE OUT
From a land so uncompromising,
where failure often means death..
Comes a story of hope
This illiterate son of a peasant
farmer would one day explode the
myth that one of Africa’s greatest
problems can only solved with
help from outside.
00.00
MUSIC IN
CUT UP
WIDE YS IN
DESERT+AXE
YS WALKING
AGAINST
VILLAGERS
POLICE RECON
ARREST
RECON FIRE
The odds were stacked against
him
but against the received wisdom
of the time, and faced with
daunting challenges
00.24
2
YS YOUTH: IN
DESERT EMERGES
THRU DUST
OLD YS: TRACK IN
he has emerged as a pioneer in
the fight against the encroaching
desert
This is his incredible story. The
story of Yacouba Sawadogo
the man who stopped the desert.
TITLE ANIMATE 00.54 MUSIC MIX
FADE UP
CGI GLOBE ZOOM
IN TO SAHEL
NAME SUPER:
Narrated by Hugh
Quarshie
There are many areas across our
planet where deteriorating
climatic conditions meet head-on
with extreme poverty
None more so than this bleak
band of land between the Sahara
desert and the rich soils further
south.
It’s known as… The Sahel
It would seem that stories of
doom and gloom are all that the
outside world gets to hear of this
place
01.02
3
MIX TO
Throughout the 1970s and early
80s this region suffered relentless
periods of drought and starvation.
As the desert conditions got ever
closer, hunger forced
more and more people to give up
on their homeland and head for
the cities..
ARCHIVE
FADE OUT
But away from the attention of the
TV cameras, something happened
that would transform the lives of
thousands of people, right across
this region
01.43
01.53
MUSIC OUT
YS, TODAY RIDING
ON MOPED
THROUGH FIELDS..
SUPER: BURKINA
FASO PRESENT DAY
WIDE GVS BARREN
FIELDS.
This is Yacouba Sawadogo.
The man at the heart of this story.
These days he is a highly
respected figure in his
community.
But it wasn’t always this way.
A quarter if a century ago, when
he first started his battle to save
the soil no one imagined just how
successful he would become.
01.55
01.58
MUSIC IN
4
GVS CROPS
.
SEED PLANTING
FOREST GVS
GVS VILLAGE
SCENES
Yet thanks to his work vast
moonscapes of desert land have
been transformed into fertile, lifegiving
soil.
Crops have been planted.
Forests have re-grown
And the people have returned.
NAME SUPER:
Ali Oudregou
Ministry of
Agriculture, Burkina
Faso
OVERLAY
HACKING
ZAI PITS
AS EXPERTS, WE SAW THE EXTRAORDINARY
RESULTS HIS TECHNIQUE PRODUCED
THIS MEANS THAT A FARMER CAN DOUBLE,
EVEN TRIPLE HIS PRODUCTION.
02.44
NAME SUPER:
Dorkas Kaiser
Environmental
Scientist
Yacouba is really amazing in what he is doing because
he never ever stopped trying, he’s like a scientist…and
every year he’s adding from his experiments
02.55
NAME SUPER:
The Toogo Nabba
Kougri
Prime Minister of
Yatenga Region
AT THE BEGINNING, PEOPLE THOUGHT
YACOUBA TO BE A MADMAN.
I HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE SAYING YACOUBA
WAS MAD
BUT TODAY WE HAVE PROOF THAT EVEN IT IF
IT IS A MADNESS,
IT IS A MADNESS THAT SUITS A LOT OF
PEOPLE.
03.05
03.08
MUSIC OUT
NAME SUPER:
Dr Chris Reij
Senior Specialist
Sustainable Land
Management
VU University
Amsterdam
Yacouba, has single handedly had more impact on soil
and water conservation that all the national and
international researchers combined.
03.24
5
YS
FADE OUT
FOOD IS INDISPENSABLE FOR HUMANITY
IF THERE IS ENOUGH TO EAT AND THE SUPPLY
IS GUARANTEED THEN WE WILL DEVELOP
BUT IF WE HAVEN’T GOT ENOUGH TO EAT
THEN WE CANNOT DEVELOP.
WE MUST SORT OUT THE FOOD PROBLEM
BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE.
03.34
03.53
MUSIC IN
FADE IN
CGI MAP ZOOM TO
BURKINA FASO
GVs GOURGA
GVs GOURGA
This is Burkina Faso, a
landlocked country in the centre
of West Africa.
The tiny hamlet of Gourga in the
North of the country is home to
Yacouba and his family.
In the 1980’s when he was a
young man, this place was right at
the heart of the crisis
03.54
03.57
YS WITH WIFE #1
For hundreds of years, the way of
life here has changed little.
Today, Yacouba continues the
traditions of his ancestors.
YS WALKS TO WIFE
# 2 It’s seven in the morning and
Yacouba’s first task of the day is
to visit each of his three wives in
the family compound to discuss
the day ahead.
6
It seems their problems are not
that different from parents all over
the world.
ACT YS WITH
WIVES SEQ
YACOUBA
WIFE 2
WE HAVEN’T GOT ANY FLOUR LEFT…
… WE NEED SOME MONEY TO GET SOME GRAIN
MILLED
Okay, WHEN YOU GO TAKE SOME MILLET WITH
YOU
AND I’LL GIVE YOU SOME MONEY TO PAY FOR
THE MILLING.
THE CHILDREN DON’T LISTEN…
..WHATEVER WE SAY TO THEM, THEY TAKE NO
NOTICE
DON’T WORRY, THEY’LL UNDERSTAND ONE
DAY
BE STRONG AND SLOWLY THINGS WILL WORK
OUT
-DON’T FORGET THE FLOUR
-I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN
04.45
CHRIS REIJ IN CAR
TRAVELLING
BURKINA FASO
Chris Reij, a world expert on
desertification, has been coming
to Burkina Faso for the past
twenty six years.
He has seen this land in the days
of drought and knows all too well
the knife-edge existence on which
its people live.
Today he is returning to see an
old friend.
05.11
MUSIC IN
CHRIS + YS
MEETING SEQ
YACOUBA!
05.39 MUSIC OUT
7
CHRIS REIJ
YS
HOW ARE YOU?
WHAT’S THE NEWS?
CHRIS, ARE YOUR WIVES WELL?
EVERYONE’S FINE THANKS
I’VE COME TO SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE
AH GOOD, NO PROBLEM
CHRIS + YS IN
FIELD SEQ
W/A CHRIS+YS IN
FIELD
I'm always coming to Yacouba to learn from what he is
doing and I hardly ever come here with good advice
because he is a much better farmer he is such a good
farmer such a store of knowledge
he's a real researcher and it's interesting that he Yacouba
doesn't read or write but if he would have been to school
he would have been a professor
I come to learn from him
Over the last 25 years I've been coming here to visit you
and I have learned a lot from you and I've always been
sending farmers and other visitors to your place
you have been a very precious source of inspiration to
me and many other people which is invaluable
and I hope to come back for many years
06.02
06.42
MUSIC IN
YS IN FOREST
WITH DONKEY
FADE OUT
So just what has he done? How
has Yacouba tackled a problem
that has eluded so many
international agencies with their
big solutions, and big money?
06.47
06.58
MUSIC OUT
FADE UP
RECON BOY YS
TAKEN TO SCHOOL
MALI
Fifty years ago Yacouba was just
a seven year old boy, far from
home
His parents had sent him away, to
a Koranic school in the
neighbouring country of Mali.
07.00
MUSIC IN
8
For the young pupil it would be a
gruelling regime of physical
labour and relentless memorising
of the Koran
BOYS ASLEEP
TRACK TO BOY
YS VO
.
WE SLEPT UNDER SIMPLE SHELTERS MADE
FROM MILLETS STALKS
IT WAS A CASE OF EACH OF US FINDING A SPOT
WHERE WE COULD GO TO SLEEP
I WAS THE SMALLEST SO I WAS OFTEN PICKED
ON BY THE OTHERS
07.30
07.48
MUSIC OUT
MUSIC SEQUENCE
KIDS LEAVE
SCHOOL,
CRANE UP INTO
RUNNING THRU
STREETS, BOY YS
LEFT BEHIND
ARRIVE AT HOUSE
CRANE DOWN
SINGING BEGGING
YS VO
KIDS EATING
RECON
BOY YS LEFT OUT
MY MAIN PROBLEM AT THE SCHOOL WAS
HUNGER
SOMETIMES WE MANAGED TO BEG A LOT OF
THINGS TO EAT
SOMETIMES WE DIDN’T GET ANYTHING
THERE WOULD OFTEN BE FIGHTS AMONGST US
STUDENTS
07.51
08.51
09.00
09.04
MUSIC IN
MUSIC OUT
MUSIC IN
9
MIX TO
YS IN VIS
FADE OUT
THIS IS JUST HOW IT IS
AND AS THE SMALLEST OF THE GROUP I
REALLY WAS THE WHIPPING BOY.
09.38
MUSIC OUT
TRANSFORMATION
TO YOUNG MAN
(Boy chanting mix to young man chanting) 09.39
MUSIC IN
MIX TO
MOON
CONTINUE WITH
TRANSFORMATION
The time finally came for the
young man to leave the school.
09.51
RECON NIGHT
TEACHER WAKES
YS YOUTH
YS VO
ONE NIGHT MY MASTER TOLD ME THAT THE
SHEIK WANTED TO SEE ME…
…ONCE NIGHTFALL HAD COME
09.58
RECON YS YOUTH
WITH SHEIK
AROUND FIRE
SO I WAS ALONE WITH THE SHEIK.
TRACK ROUND
SHEIK & YS YOUTH
SHEIK
YS YOUTH
YACOUBA. ONE DAY YOU WILL BECOME A
LEADER OF MEN.
BUT MASTER THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR MY FAMILY.
10.18
RECON CONT
YS VO
HE SAID NOT TO WORRY IF I CANT LEARN
I FOUND THE COURAGE TO SPEAK TO HIM
I TOLD HIM THAT OUR FAMILY COULD’NT
BECOME LEADERS.
10
HE TOLD ME TO FORGET THAT
BECAUSE WHAT HE SAID…
…WOULD BECOME REALITY.
10.43
MUSIC OUT
BUSTLNG MARKET
MUSIC SEQ
RECON YS YOUTH
WALKS THROUGH
MARKET
YS VO
I WAS REALLY HAPPY TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL
BECAUSE I KNEW I WOULD SEE ALL MY
FAMILY AGAIN.
10.45
11.00
MUSIC IN
YS IN VIS
HOLD ON
EMOTIONAL FACE
MY PARENTS WERE VERY HAPPY TOO, THAT I
HAD COME HOME,
BUT THEY WERE RATHER SAD WHEN THEY
DISCOVERED THAT I HADN’T LEARNED VERY
MUCH.
11.16
MUSIC OUT
YS AT FATHER’S
GRAVE
FADE OUT
Yacouba’s father died in 1997.
He is buried here at the family
home on a small plot of land.
The crops that now surround his
grave are testament to his son’s
tenacity and vision.
11.22
11.24
11.40
MUSIC IN
CUT IN
MUSIC SEQ
RESUMES MARKET
HUBUB
RECON CAMERA
FIND YS YOUTH IN
STALL
After leaving the Koranic school
Yacouba opened a stall in the
local market. For the first time in
his life, he would taste real
success.
11.41
11.47
11
RECON YS YOUTH
IN STALL
YS VO
THINGS WENT VERY WELL IN THE MARKET
I COULD DO WHATEVER I WANTED
AND WAS ABLBE TO BUY MYSELF…
… A BRAND NEW MOTORBIKE EVERY SIX
MONTHS.
11.57
YS IN VIS THERE WERE RICH PEOPLE AND POOR PEOPLE
IN THE MARKET
I EARNED A LOT OF MONEY BUT I KNEW IT
WOULDN’T LAST
SO I PUT THE MONEY I HAD EARNED TO ONE
SIDE AND LEFT THE MARKET
TO LIVE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES THAT
WEREN’T DEPENDANT ON MONEY
THIS WAS MY MOTIVATION TO GIVE IT ALL
UP…
…AND GO INTO THE BUSH.
12.10
MUSIC OUT
RECON LOCKING
UP STALL YS
YOUTH & FRIEND
ALI
YS YOUTH
FROM TODAY I’M LEAVING THE MARKET
I’M GOING HOME NOW I’M GOING BACK
12.32
YS VO PEOPLE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND MY DECISION
I HAD MY MONEY, I HAD A GOOD BUSINESS,
YET I DECIDED TO LEAVE.
THEY WERE VERY CONFUSED.
12.46
YS IN VIS
WHEN I WAS AT THE MARKET LIFE WAS VERY
GOOD
BUT THEN THERE CAME A LACK OF WATER
THE RAINS BECAME VERY IRREGULAR.
13.01
12
CHRIS REIJ IN VIS
NAME SUPER:
Dr Chris Reij
Senior Specialist
Sustainable Land
Management
VU University
Amsterdam
I think that whole period between 1975 and 1985 was a
period that villages were increasingly abandoned by
many families who decided to go to the southwest where
there is more rainfall where there are more fertile soils so
this really was an area of out migrations of substantial
out migration.
I think often in those days 25% of the village population
left the villages
13.10
13.30
MUSIC IN
MUSIC SEQ
EXODUS YS YOUTH
WALKS AGAINST
THE FLOW, BABIES
CRYING
BARREN SOIL
YS VO
CU AXE HITS
GROUND PAN UP
TO YS YOUTH
LONE FIGURE
WITH AXE
AXE IN FG,
VILLERS IN BG
WALKING AWAY
ICONIC WIDE GV
OF ABOVE
FADE OUT
JUST AS THE SHIEK HAD PREDICTED,I KNEW
MY MOMENT HAD COME
13.35
13.59
14.24
14.25
MUSIC OUT
FADE IN
RECON YS YOUTH
WANDERING IN
DESERT
Yacouba was now without any
source of income.
His family and friends thought he
was insane.
But he was about to make the
discovery that would change the
course of his life.
14.29
14.32
MUSIC IN
RECON YS YOUTH
SITTING IN FIELD
THINKING
13
YS VO
BARREN FIELDS
YS IN VIS
WHEN I FIRST CAME HERE TO THE BUSH I’D LOOK
AROUND ME
I SAW JUST HOW BARREN IT HAD BECOME
I THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT IT AND WAS DESPERATE
TO FIND WAYS TO CHANGE THE SITUATION
I KNEW THAT THE TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES OF
THOSE TIMES
WITH THE LITTLE RAIN WE HAD COULD NEVER
PRODUCE SUFFICIENT HARVEST.
THIS IS HOW THE ZAI CAME ALONG AS A GREAT
IDEA.
14.49
CU AXE HACKING
PITS
RECON YS YOUTH
HACKING PITS
Zai is the local name for an
ancient farming technique.
Deep planting pits are hacked into
the hard baked earth on a massive
scale.
15.16
15.20
15.21
MUSIC OUT
MIX TO WORKERS
HACKING PITS
CHRIS REIJ VO
CHRIS REIJ IN VIS
VO YS IN FIELD
IN VIS
VO YS IN FIELD
.
Normally in the times before Yacouba began improving
the technique, farmers were cutting the crust of very
very hard soil with their hoe and making small holes, that
was it, so water could infiltrate into that hole.
But what Yacouba did was making those pits as we call
them, making them bigger, making them deeper , and
also adding some manure to them in the dry season, and
by doing so more water could be stored in those pits,
rainfall as well as run-off, but also the combination of the
water and the manure creates very favourable conditions
for plant growth,
15.30
15.50
ZAI PIT DIGGING During the dry season, when there
is little to do, labour is not a
problem.
16.13
The issue for Yacouba was that
by preparing the ground in the dry
season he was defying the local
tradition.
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RECON YS IN
DESERT
YS IN VIS
A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE AGAINST MY WORK
EVEN THOSE IN MY OWN VILLAGE
THEY WERE ALL FOR DEFENDING CUSTOMS
AND TRADITIONS.
THEIR TRADITIONS SAY THAT BEFORE A
CERTAIN MONTH
YOU’RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO TAKE
COMPOST INTO THE BUSH.
SINCE I WAS DIGGING ZAI HOLES BEFORE THIS
PARTICULAR MONTH
THEY WEREN’T AT ALL HAPPY,
THEY EVEN CAME OUT TO WARN ME THAT…
…I WAS PRACTISING ZAI BEFORE THE RAINY
SEASON.
I TOLD THEM “ALL I’M DOING IS DIGGING
HOLES,
IF YOU THINK I ‘M PRACTISING ZAI THEN
THAT’S YOUR PROBLEM.
16.27
17.13
MUSIC IN
RECON MARKET
WORKERS
Yacouba’s apparently crazy
decision to leave his trade and
work in the fields, was about to be
vindicated …back at the market
his friends were in serious trouble
17.17
RECON TRADERS
ARGUE WITH
OFFICIAL
YS VO
(SHOUTING)
JUST AFTER I LEFT THE MARKET THERE WERE
MANY PROBLEMS.
THE TRADERS REFUSED TO OBEY THE
GOVERNMENT,
THE GOVERNMENT TOOK REPRISALS
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE SUFFERED THE
CONSEQUENCES.
17.29
17.34
15
RECON POLICE
ARRIVE TO
ARREST TRADERS
ALI RUNS AWAY
POICE STUGGLING
WITH TRADERS
POLICE BUNDLE
TRADERS AWAY
FADE OUT
(MUSIC + ACT)
17.50
18.10
MUSIC OUT
FADE UP
RECON ALI +YS
YOUTH TALKING
IN FIELD
YS VO
RECON ALI EATS
BOWL OF CORN
MEAL
MIS TO YS IN VIS
A FEW ESCAPED AND CAME LOOKING FOR ME
IN MY FIELDS
I GAVE SOMETHING TO EAT AND DRINK.
IT HAD BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE THEY HAD
EATEN
IT WASN’T EASY FOR THESE PEOPLE TO EAT
THIS TYPE OF FOOD
THEY WERE USED TO HAVING PLENTY OF
MONEY AND EATING IN BIG RESTAURANTS
IT WAS HARD TO IMAGINE THAT A TRADER
FROM THE BIG MARKET
COULD END UP EATING BOILED SORGHUM AND
SALT.
18.13
RECON YS YOUTH
WITH ALI EATING
Yacouba’s old friends from the
market were more than happy to
eat his food.
But elsewhere he experienced
open hostility.
18.47
16
SUNSET OVER
FIELD
Hostility that threatened to
destroy his ultimate dream of
stopping the desert
19.01
MUSIC IN
RECON FLASH
FORWARD MEN
SET FIRE TO
FOREST
CUT TO BLACK
(MUSIC)
19.07
MUSIC OUT
FADE IN
RECON LONE YS
YOUTH
WANDERING IN
DESERT
YS VO
Opposition to Yacouba’s methods
came initially from the traditional
land chiefs.
THE LAND CHIEFS DECIDE WHO USES THE
LAND
WHETHER THEY WILL GO OFF TO WAR OR NOT.
THESE WERE THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSED ME
THE MOST.
19.08
19.18
MUSIC IN
YS IN VIS
I DARED TO DEFY THE TRADITION
I DIDN’T CARE WHAT OTHERS THOUGHT.
I LOOKED FOR SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS.
19.28
YS PRESENT DAY
TEACHING ZAI IN
FIELDS
Undaunted, Yacouba continued to
experiment with the ancient
planting technique but combined
it with an idea from an OXFAM
funded project.
19.35
GV RAIN FALLS ON
BARREN LAND
During the rainy season most of
the rainwater runs straight off the
hard packed earth.
19.46
19.53
MUSIC IN
17
CGI SEQ RAIN
SEEPING THROUGH
STONE WALLS
But these low stone walls, known
as contour bunds, ensure that the
precious water slowly trickles
through and is absorbed into the
soil.
CONTOUR BUNDS
SUNRISE
Together the zai compost pits and
stone walls proved a winning
combination.
But Yacouba added a magic
ingredient…
CU TERMITES termites.
DORKAS KAISER
BREAKS OPEN
TERMITE MOUND
Dorkas Kaiser is one of many
scientists who come to Yacouba’s
farm to study his methods. For her
termites are not the destructive
force that wreak havoc wherever
they come into contact with man.
Instead of battling with these tiny
agents of destruction, Yacouba
uses their considerable collective
power to enhance his work of
regenerating the land.
20.12
DORKAS VO
Termites act like our earthworms, they are breaking up
the soil by tunnelling they are breaking down the organic
material making the soil richer in nutrients
They turn over the soil.
20.44
18
DORKAS ENTERING
FOREST
DORKAS
EXPERIMENTS
CU BIRD IN TREE
Yacouba’s place is like a dream place
You cannot find another place like the land of Yacouba
where you can find all the stages of the Zai, it’s a time
travel , You start from the degraded area the initial
phase, you have forests of different age so its like a time
travel, it’s a dream place for the study of termites in the
restoration process. It’s like perfect study site
21.12
MUSIC OUT
CHRIS IV I’ve brought many researchers to the fields of Yacouba
and they were all incredibly impressed by what they
observed. I think that most of the researchers will
recognise that they themselves have never been able to
design such an efficient package as er as Yacouba has
done.
21.19
YS PRESENT DAY
RIDING
MOTORBIKE
DORKAS VO
Yacouba is really amazing in what he is doing because
he never ever stops trying, he’s like a scientist he’s
observing, he’s making experiments and every year he is
adding from his experience..
21.39
21.41
MUSIC IN
YS GETS OFF BIKE
CHRIS VO
CHRIS IN VIS
Yacouba is not only about the Zai it’s about a chain of
innovations
and in that sense he is a bit of a genius.
If you look at Yacouba’s innovations, it began with the
simple Zai for growing crops on what used to be
degraded land. The next step was to introduce trees into
this system of the Zai,
21.53
FOREST GVS
YS ENTERS FOREST
BIG WIDE SHOT
This 30 acre forest is the result of
a phenomenal planting regime,
started by Yacouba.
Twenty years ago this area was
completely barren. But now, there
is nothing quite like it throughout
the entire region.
To embark on a project of this
scale required skill,
determination, and incredible
vision.
22.17
22.18
19
CU BLOSSOM
YS WALKING IN
FOREST
There would be no immediate
pay-back.
While the people around him
were abandoning their villages
Yacouba was out in the fields,
planting trees.
YS VO
YS IN VIS WALK
AND TALK
CU RED BIRD
THE FOREST THAT HERE HAS NOT JUST COME
ABOUT ON ITS OWN
IT’S THE WORK OF MAN.
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WASN’T A SINGLE
TREE HERE
BUT AS SOON AS I UNDERSTOOD HOW
IMPORTANT TREES WERE
I SET TO WORK ON PLANTING THE FOREST.
BECAUSE TREES HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT
ROLE TO PLAY IN NATURE
THEY MAKE THE RAINS FALL AND WE CAN USE
THEM FOR OTHER THINGS AS WELL.
THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLL IS AS WIND
BREAKS
FORESTS SLOW THE WINDS AND IF THE WINDS
CAN BE STOPPED
THEN EVERYTHING CAN DEVELOP
MARVELLOUSLY
WITHOUT THE FORESTS MANY ANIMALS AND
SPECIES WILL DISAPPEAR.
22.52
23.12
MUSIC OUT
CHRIS +YS IN
FOREST ACT SEQ
Yacouba, this really has become an amazing spot, if you
look at the density of the trees and the diversity of the
trees I remember this from 20 years ago and there was
basically nothing, and what's so important is that here if
you look around, that the biomass that has been created
is just amazing. The biomass and the diversity. Ah! it's
very good, very impressive
23.28
20
BIG WIDE GV
FOREST
YS VO
YS IN VIS
And all the species, the trees and birds that it attracts.
Probably this is the biggest diversity of trees that is being
managed by a farmer in this whole Sahel. So if you
consider the starting point of this about 20 years ago, it’s
just amazing what has grown here.
Very impressive.
WE MUST NOT BE ENEMIES OF NATURE.
NOBODY IS LOOKING AFTER OUR FORESTS
THE POPULATION HAS GROWN
AND THE FORESTS ARE SUFFERING.
SOME PEOPLE JUST DO WHATEVER
THEY WANT WITH OUR FORESTS
THEY ARE DESTROYING THEM.
IF YOU CUT DOWN TEN TREES IN A DAY
AND YOU CAN’T PLANT ANY IN A YEAR
THEN WE ARE HEADING STRAIGHT FOR
DESTRUCTION.
24.30
24.54
MUSIC IN
RECON YS YOUTH
WALKING
AGAINST THE
EXODUS
Yacouba’s hardest battle has not
been with the forces of nature.
The attitudes of those around him
were to present a far greater threat
than the advance of the desert
24.58
YS IN VIS
YS IN DESERT
WHEN YOU ARE SERIOUS AND YOU START
WORK
THAT OTHERS DON’T UNDERSTAND
THEN THEY TREAT YOU AS A MAD MAN
I SUFFERED A LOT FROM THIS
PEOPLE WOULDN’T EVEN SPEAK TO ME
THEY SAID I WAS A CRAZY MAN.
25.09 MUSIC OUT
21
YS IN VIS
AN ELDER FROM MY VILLAGE SAID…
… THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MAN
WHO DIGS HOLES
AND A MAN WHO HANGS HIMSELF.
THIS IS WHAT HE SAID AND IT MADE
EVERYONE LAUGH.
RECON YS YOUTH
ON BICYCLE
Despite this resistance from local
people Yacouba was keen to tell
the authorities about his work.
25.44
25.25
MUSIC IN
RECON YS YOUTH
ON BICYCLE
YS VO
RECON CONT:
YS YOUTH PASSES
BAD GUYS
YS YOUTH
ARRIVES AT
OFFICES
YS VO
THERE WAS A NEW GOVERNOR IN THE
NORTHERN REGION
I DECIDED TO GO AND INTRODUCE MYSELF AS
A FARMER
WHO HAD DEVELOPED A NEW FARMING
TECHNIQUE.
THE MEETING WAS AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK,
IN MY ABSENCE THEY CAME AND SET FIRE TO
MY FIELDS AND FOREST
THEY KNEW I WASN’T THERE.
25.51
26.14
26.28
MUSIC OUT
MUSIC IN
RECON MUSIC SEQ
FIELDS ABLAZE
YS YOUTH
EMERGES FROM
OFFICE. SEES
SMOKE
(FIRE FX)
22
YS VO
MIX TO FIRE
FADE OUT
I COULD SEE THE FIRE FROM THE CITY
BECAUSE THE FOREST WAS VERY DENSE…
…AND THE FIELDS WERE FULL OF CROPS.
27.08
27.22
MUSIC OUT
FADE IN
RECON YS YOUTH
INSPECTS DAMAGE
YS VO
Over ten acres of crops and newly
planted forest were destroyed.
But Yacouba was far from
defeated.
YOU CAN’T DO GOOD THINGS WITHOUT
CREATING OPPOSITION
ITS WHEN YOU HAVE ENEMIES THAT YOU
ACTUALLY FEEL..
.. YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING GOOD.
27.24
27.26
27.33
27.42
MUSIC IN
RECON YS YOUTH
AT NIGHT PRAYER
YS VO
RECON YS YOUTH
TRANSFORM TO
PRESENT DAY
YACOUBA
OLD YS TODAY AT
PRAYER
YS VO
AFTER THE FIRE I DECIDED TO EXPAND THE
AREA OF LAND I WAS WORKING ON.
I WANTED WORK EVEN HARDER TO MAKE IT
SUCCEED.
27.48
28.16
MUSIC OUT
MIX TO
YS TEACHING
UNDER TREE
Resistance to Yacouba’s work
eventually ebbed away as farmers
from neighbouring villages came
to realise he was on to something.
28.18
28.22
MUSIC IN
23
CHRIS IN VIS
CHRIS VO YS
TEACHING UNDER
TREE
Yacouba began visiting many villages to to influence
them to convince them to adopt the zai.
And he invited representatives of those villages to come
to the village of Gourga, where he lives, to share their
experience in what was called a Zai market,
28.31
28.48
MUSIC OUT
CHRIS VO YS +
GROUP OF
FARMERS IN FIELD
TEACHING ZAI
CHRIS IN VIS
In 1989we brought a group of 14 farmers from
Niger to Yacouba and to other farmers in this region
because there are other farmers innovating. What they
saw impressed them so much that upon return they began
trying out the zai.
In 1990 was a drought year and farmers observed that
on the area that they had treaded with zai, those were the
only areas where a crop was produced.
So that triggered a complete reaction, it began
snowballing,
It’s not a very good word for hot dry land or a bush fire
or a wild fire but it began spreading very rapidly
28.49
EXT GV YS SEED
STORE
YS ENTERS
FARMER ARRIVES
Sharing the knowledge has been
central to Yacouba’s philosophy.
This building, on the edge of the
family compound is where he
sleeps. But it’s also his HQ.
From here Yacouba dispenses
advice to visiting farmers, who
come from miles around.
29.31
29.59
MUSIC IN
MUSIC OUT
YS + FARMER IN
SEED STORE ACT
SEQ
-GOOD MORNING
-HOW ARE YOU DOING?
I’M FINE THANKS.
I’VE COME TO ASK FOR SOME GOOD QUALITY
SEEDS.
NO PROBLEM, FOLLOW ME.
WHAT TYPE OF SEEDS TO YOU PREFER?
DO YOU WANT THE BEST QUALITY?
30.00
24
I WANT THE TOP QUALITY
THESE ARE THE BEST QUALITY
WHAT THE OTHER ONE CALLED?
THIS IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING
THAT’S THE SMALL MILLET
ONCE YOUR HARVEST IS IN,
BRING BACK A SAMPLE TO ME
THANK YOU
WOMAN WITH
POTS IN VILLAGE
The seed store has been a life line
for thousands of families
This is the Village of Ranawa,
twenty miles away. The young
men here owe an unusual debt of
thanks to Yacouba.
30.43
CHRIS IN VIS
+ VO WOMAN
WITH POTS
IN VIS
Between 1975 and 1985 people were leaving the village
of Renawa in numbers. They had a reduction of the
population by 25 % in ten years time and people left
because there was a lot of land degradation, people
couldn’t harvest crops, there was no water in the wells
so the situation was very desperate.
30.58
RANAWA MAN IN
VIS
VO RECON
DESERTED
VILLAGE
IN VIS
VO RECON
VILLAGERS
EXODUS
ONE YEAR THERE WASN’T ENOUGH RAIN
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CAME AND THIS
STARTED A FAMINE IN THE VILLAGE
THERE WAS NOTHING TO EAT IT WAS VERY
DIFFICULT TO FIND FOOD
AND THERE WAS NO WATER TO DRINK.
THE LAND DRIED UP SO MUCH, WE COULD DO
NOTHING WITH IT
THIS CAUSED A LOT OF PEOPLE TO LEAVE
FAMILY HEADS TOOK ALL THEIR FAMILIES
WITH THEM AND HEADED WEST.
31.19
MUSIC IN
25
CHRIS IN VIS
VO WOMAN AT
WELL
Just to give one little anecdote, girls from neighbouring
villages did not want to marry with boys from Renawa
because the burden of fetching water for the family was
simply too big so they avoided contacts with the young
men from Renawa. In 1985 the zai were introduced and
the zai were the improved version of Yacouba and that
led to a rehabilitation of degraded land
so water levels started coming up people were able to
get a harvest even in years of lower rain fall people no
longer left the villages not a single family has left the
village since 1985 and other families began coming back
so the population doubled in the next 10 years. And there
is more water in the wells, there is a higher production,
there is a cultivation of cash crops, there is a substantial
environmental and socio-economic transformation.
31.51 MUSIC OUT
RENAWA MAN IN
VIS
THIS IS WHY ZAI ISN’T BANNED ANYMORE
YOU CAN DIG ZAI WHENEVER YOU WANT
AND IF YOU PRACTISE ZAI, YOU’LL HAVE
ENOUGH TO EAT.
32.48
YS VISITS
RANAWA
Yacouba has never actually been
to Ranawa…until today.
Now for the first time he will see
for himself what his teaching has
achieved.
32.58
33.01
MUSIC IN
YS MEETS FARMER
AND SEES RESULTS
I’VE COME TO SEE MY STUDENT. HOW WAS THE
HARVEST?
WE’VE LEARNT A LOT FROM YOU AND ITS GOOD
YOU HAVE COME TO SEE US.
I CAN SEE THAT THE HARVEST WAS GOOD AND
YOUR BARN IS FULL.
YES THANKS TO YOUR TEACHING YOU CAN SEE
WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED THIS YEAR
MY BARN IS FULL THANKS TO YOUR TECHNIQUES.
33.10
33.25
MUSIC OUT
MIX TO SUNSET
OVER CROPS
The immediate benefits of
Yacouba’s methods are plain to
see.
33.38
MUSIC IN
26
But there are other, less obvious
effects, and these have lessons for
us all.
MIX TO
ARCHIVE CIVIL
UNREST
Around the world food prices are
rocketing. In some counties this
has led to civil unrest.
And when people have to leave
their villages to live in the cities,
tensions become even worse.
33.49
34.05
MUSIC OUT
BABA EXT BAR
Local businessman, Baba
Ouedraogo, owns a bar on the
outskirts of Ouahigouya in the
North of Burkina Faso.
34.07
BABA VO
WORKING IN BAR
IN VIS
VO
FOOD IS A PROBLEM OF THE HIGHEST PRIORITY
BECAUSE IF WE ARE HUNGRY THEN WE CAN’T
GO TO SCHOOL
IF WE ARE HUNGRY AS ADULTS WE CAN’T
LEARN TO READ AND WRITE.
AROUND 1993 1994 THE ZAI SYSTEM WAS
DEVELOPED
THIS HAS GIVEN US FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN
THE VILLAGES AND IN THE FAMILIES
EVEN WITH LOW RAIN FALL
LAST YEAR MY FAMILY DIDN’T NEED TO BUY
ANY CEREALS AT ALL
THAT ALLOWED ME TO USE THE LITTLE BIT I
EARN TO DEVELOP OTHER ACTIVITIES
LIKE THIS BAR, SO I CAN HANG ON MAKING A
LIVING IN MY AREA
AND PRESERVE MY DIGNITY.
34.15
VO VILLAGE LIFE
THANKS TO THE ZAI THAT YACOUBA
SAWADOGO
27
AND A LOT OF OTHER FAMILIES IN THIS
REGION PRACTISE..
.A LOT OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO
STAY IN THE VILLAGES AND WORK
AND NOT LEAVE FOR THE CITIES OR THE
IVORY COAST OR EVEN FURTHER AFIELD…
TO EUROPE TAKING UNNECESSARY RISKS TO
GET TO A BETTER LIFE.
FADE UP
SUNRISE OVER
CROPS
YS WITH FAMILY
It’s the end of the rainy season,
and the most important day of the
year has finally arrived.
Harvest
Before any work can start
Yacouba gathers his family
together for a team briefing.
35.21
35.25
MUSIC IN
YS BRIEFING
FAMILY
CHILDREN THE DAY HAS BROKEN AND YOU
KNOW WE NEED TO GO AND WORK NOW
TODAY’S THE HARVEST THAT’S WHAT YOU
ARE GOING TO DO
WHOEVER WANTS TO HELP CAN SAY NOW .
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WORK, IT’S
IMPOSSIBLE TO CALCULATE THE BENEFITS
AT THE START OF EACH DAY EVERYONE
SHOULD KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE
AND ENSURE THAT IT’S DONE WELL.
IF YOU HAVENT DONE ANYTHING AT THEN END
OF THE DAY
YOU WONT KNOW WHAT TO DO THE NEXT DAY
SO YOU ARE LIKE A DEAD BODY .
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PEOPLE LIKE SOLO HERE…
…HIS ONLY CONCERN IS TO EAT, HE DOESN’T
CARE ABOUT WORK.
TELL ME SOLO, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY
ABOUT THIS?
YOU’LL HAVE A WIFE ONE DAY…
A WIFE AND CHILDREN, CAN YOU IMAGINE
HOW HARD IT WILL BE?
IT WILL BE REALLY REALLY DIFFICULT
SOLO TODAY YOU’RE GOING TO FOLLOW THE
OTHERS
MAY GOD HELP US
MUSIC SEQ. YS +
OLD MEN ON
BIKES GATHER
FOR HARVEST.
TRACKING SHOTS
HIGH WIDE
ARRIVAL
36.53
37.10
MUSIC IN:
Fly The Flag
(1033/1) Paul
Mottram
(PRS)
MUSIC OUT
YS ADDRESSES
WORKERS
OK, THIS IS HOW I WANT TO ORGANISE THE
HARVEST
THE YOUNG PEOPLE WILL CUT THE STALKS
THE WOMEN WILL CUT THE EARS
AND THE OLD PEOPLE WILL MAKE THE
BUSHELS.
THIS IS HOW I WANT THE WORK TO BE DONE
MAY GOD BE THANKED.
37.18
MUSIC SEQ
HARVESTING
MILLET
YS VO
I’M VERY HAPPY THAT SO MANY PEOPLE CAME
TO HELP
WORKING TOGTHER VERY IMPORTANT
BECAUSE EVERYONE CAN LEARN SOMETHING.
37.40
37.49
MUSIC IN
29
BUT IF YOU STAY IN YOUR OWN LITTLE
CORNER
ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE IS OF NO USE TO
HUMANITY.
OLD MEN MAKING
BUSHELS
OLD MEN ACT:
MIX TO YS
FATHER’S GRAVE
YS TENDS GRAVE
IF IT WEREN’T FOR THIS WORK THE VILLAGE
WOULD BE IN RUINS
IT WOULD JUST BE RUINS, RUINS.
YES, BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE GOOD HARVESTS
OTHERWISE EVERYONE WOULD HAVE LEFT.
EVERYONE WANTS THIS MUCH MILLET
WE CAN THANK OUR ANCESTORS.
Yacouba’s father would no doubt
be proud. His son has battled
with nature and man to provide a
life-line to thousands of families
But his struggle is far from over.
A peril, far greater than the desert
wind, is approaching.
And it threatens to destroy
everything.
38.18
38.43
38.57
MUSIC OUT
MUSIC IN
YS IN VIS I’M NOT WORLDLY WISE BUT I’VE NEVER SEEN
A SITUATION LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE
39.03
HEAVY
CONSTRUCTION
SCENES FAST CUT
(CONTRUCTION FX) 39.07
YS IN VIS AND IT’S HAPPENED TO ME, SO I WONDER
WHAT I’VE DONE TO DESERVE IT
39.10
HEAVY
CONSTRUCTION
(CONTRUCTION FX)
39.14
30
SCENES FAST CUT
YS IN VIS MY FATHER’S POWERLESS NOW BECAUSE HE’S
DEAD
39.17
HEAVY
CONSTRUCTION
SCENES FAST CUT
(CONTRUCTION FX)
39.20
YS IN VIS
I’M ASKING FOR HELP BECAUSE W,ERE ALL
GOING TO GO ONE DAY.
29.24
GVS BUILDING
WORK
TILT UP FROM DIRT
TO REVEAL ROAD
BUILDING
The nearby city of Ouahigouya is
home to over seventy thousand
people. It’s the county’s fourth
largest city, but it’s about to get a
lot bigger.
A huge urban expansion scheme
is underway,
And Yacouba’s farm is right in its
path.
39.29
39.31
MUSIC OUT
YS WORKING IN
COMPOST PIT
WIDE GVS FOREST
YS TENDING
GRAVE
Like most farmers in the area,
Yacouba owns his land. But last
summer officials arrived and set
about driving concrete boundary
stakes into the ground.
Yacouba estimates that up to
eighty percent of his land will be
lost to new housing development.
Nothing is secure, the forest, the
fields.
There’s even a plotting line which
splits the grave of Yacouba’s
father right in two.
31
YS IN VIS NEXT TO
STAKE
YS GOES TO
GRAVE
THIS STAKE HERE CAUSED ME A LOT OF PAIN
BUT THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO.
THIS STAKE SPLITS THE GRAVE IN TWO
HALVES
SO IT WILL END UP IN TWO PLOTS
A GRAVE ON TWO DIFFERENT FAMILY PLOTS
WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?
NOBODY HAS SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS
BEFORE
IVE NO IDEA WHAT IVE DONE TO DESERVE THIS
MY FATHERS GRAVE SPLIT IN TWO
ON PLOTS THAT DON’T BELONG TO ME
THAT DOESN’T PLEASE ME AT ALL
SO COME AND SEE.
40.17
YS ARRIVES AT
GRAVE
THE GRAVE WILL BE SPLIT IN TWO.
THE BOUNDARY WILL COME THROUGH HERE
AND DIVIDE THE GRAVE INTO TWO HALVES.
MY FATHER IS POWERLESS BECAUSE HE IS
DEAD
IT IS VERY UNJUST.
YS INSIDE HIS
SEED STORE
Even Yacouba’s seed store, the
hub of his operation during the
day and where he sleeps at night,
has not escaped.
A stake has been driven right
through the centre. The building
will have to be demolished.
41.17
32
YS IN VIS. SEED
STORE IV
THERE ARE NO BRICK HOUSES
AND YET HERE WE SEE A STAKE IN THE ONLY
BRICK HOUSE
ON THIS SIDE THERE WILL BE A FAMILY PLOT
AND ON THE OTHER SIDE THERE WILL BE A
FAMILY PLOT
SO TWO FAMILY PLOTS AND ONE BIG ROAD.
I DON’T THINK THIS IS A GOOD THING FOR
SOCIETY
AND I CAN ONLY SEE MORE PROBLEMS IF THIS
IS REPEATED EVERYWHERE ELSE
BECAUSE NOTHING MORE THAN INJUSTICE
TURNS MAN NASTY
INJUSTICE CAN DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD
THAT YOU SEE AROUND YOU
BUT GOODNESS IT TOUCHES EVERYBODY
DOING SOMETHING GOOD TO ONE PERSON
IS THE SAME AS DOING IT TO A THOUSAND
PEOPLE.
I ASK THAT THIS SITUATION BE SORTED OUT
BECAUSE THE WORLD ONLY WANTS
GOODNESS
ITS NOT ONLY ME WHO WILL SUFFER
EVERYONE WILL
BECAUSE INJUSTICE WITHOUT EXCEPTION
CAUSES EVERYONE TO SUFFER.
41.30
42.31
MUSIC IN
YS NEXT TO STAKE
OLD MEN MAKING
BUSHELS
Yacouba and all the other farmers
who live within the vast
expansion scheme will lose out.
They will no longer be able to
grow crops on their land. Instead,
42.36
33
CHRIS VO
IN VIS
they will be forced into an urban
lifestyle.
Urban expansion has become a threat to Yacouba
because the town is growing bigger
but it is vital that what Yacouba has created in the last
20, 25, 30 years that be preserved. There is no other
area in the Sahel that I know about where there is such a
large biodiversity managed by a farmer.
42.52
WIDE GVS SUNSET
OVER CROPS
YS IN TOWN
CROSSING ST
Can it really be that all Yacouba’s
work over the last 30 years will be
destroyed?
Confronting the authorities will
be a formidable task, but as news
of his work starts to reach the
outside world, events in
Yacouba’s life take on another
twist.
43.22
43.27
MUSIC OUT
YS WALKING IN DC
MUSIC SEQ
CAPITOL HILL IN
BG
YS ON SIDEWALK
DELEGATION
ARRIVES ON
CAPITOL HILL
The peasant farmer from Africa
really has arrived in down town
DC.
He’s been invited by Oxfam
America as part of a small
delegation of innovating farmers
from the Sahel.
They are here to present their case
to the heart of the Obama
administration, here in
Washington.
43.38
43.55
MUSIC IN
34
INSIDE BUILDING
CHRIS REIJ VO
DELEGATION IN
CORRIDOORS
IN VIS
ACT NERVOUS
STAFF BRIEF
YACOUBA
OUTSIDE ROOM
It will be a non-stop round of
meetings and presentations on
Capitol Hill
He has never been to the united states and he got an
opportunity to present his experience at Capitol hill, I
think there are very few farmers in Burkina Faso who
have had the opportunity so far and he could inform
staffers of congress about his experience
and with a bit of luck some of his ideas and some of his
experiences will be fed into the Obama’s global food
security initiative. What a chance!
Yacouba, good morning. We’ll start today with your
presentation and Monsieur Bikyenga has er offered to
translate
44.27
44.33
44.43
44.56
MUSIC OUT
YS ENTERS ROOM
C/A WAITING
AUDIENCE
C/A AFRICA MAP IN
BG
45.07 MUSIC IN
Veritas
(1251/1) Paul
Mottram
(PRS)
YS ADDRESSES
AUDIENCE
MY NAME IS YACOUBA SAWADOGO AND I
COME FROM GOURGA.
WHEN THE LAND IS DEGRADED
SO ARE THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE WHO
DEPEND ON IT .
WHEN DROUGHT COMES PEOPLE ARE PUSHED
TO EXTREME LIMITS
MANY OF THEM CHOOSE TO LEAVE
BUT I CHOSE TO STAY AND TRY TO WORK OUT
HOW TO MAKE THE LAND PRODUCTIVE AGAIN
45.20
35
MIX BACK IN TIME
MUSIC MONTAGE
BOY YS AT
SCHOOL
BEGGING
YS YOUTH IN
DESERT
FIRE
PROUD YS ON
MOTORBIKE
45.44
MIX BACK TO DC
YS PRESENTATION
IN REAGAN
BUILDING
YS IN VIS
EVERYONE CAN NOW SEE THAT…
… THERE ARE WAYS OF MAKING THE LAND
PRODUCTIVE AGAIN.
46.12
YS IN VIS ON
PANEL
PEOPLE NOW HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT , PEOPLE
ARE NO LONGER LEAVING THE VILLAGES…
… THEY ARE COMING BACK.
THE RESULTS OF THE WORK HELPED ME
GREATLY
SO I SHOWED MY FAMILY AND MY
NEIGHBOURS
AND I’M STILL SHOWING PEOPLE TODAY.
AUDIENCE
APPLAUSE
46.43 MUSIC OUT
NAME SUPER:
Jim French
Oxfam America
I think Yacouba’s achievements are extremely inspiring
It’s amazing what he’s achieved but I think it also is a
real lesson in how what can be achieved if you work at
the community level
46.46
46.50
NAME SUPER:
Lindsay Coates
InterAction
hearing the story of someone who's had a huge success
by patience and persistence knowing his local
community knowing the people he is working with is
very very inspiring for someone like me
46.57
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NAME SUPER:
John Ambler
Senior Vice-President
of Programmes Oxfam
America
oftentimes we have academics getting together talking
about issues we have ngo’s getting together and talking
about issues and the government talks amongst itself all
the time but it’s rare we get all three together and
especially having that fourth element people like
Yacouba involved as well that’s not a very common
occurrence
47.10
EXT GV CAPITOL
HILL
INT EMBASSY
Yacouba’s Whirlwind tour of
Capitol Hill is regarded as a
success.
And on his last night in the US, he
is an honoured guest of the
ambassador of Burkina Faso.
47.31
47.41
MUSIC IN
Veritas
(1251/1) Paul
Mottram
(PRS)
MUSIC OUT
NAME
SUPER:Ambassador
Paramanga Ernest
Yonli
of the Republic of
Burkina Faso
IN VIS WITH YS
NEXT TO HIM
I think it was very important to have such people in
America, many small farmers in third world is waiting
for innovating methods for agriculture and to have one
such as Yacouba from Burkina Faso and in Sahel in a
large part of West Africa is something very important, is
a good example for the future of agriculture and for food
security in the world
47.47
YS IN VIS
ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT THE HONOUR I HAVE
RECEIVED HERE
IS AN HONOUR FOR ALL THOSE BACK HOME.
48.12
YS VO
MIX TO BACK
HOME YS FAMILY
GROUP PHOTO
SESSION
I’M VERY HAPPY
WHEN I RETURN I’LL INCREASE THE EXTENT OF
MY WORK
AND THIS WILL SHOW HOW MUCH THIS
EXPERIENCE HAS FIRED ME UP
48.29
MUSIC IN
Veritas
(1251/1) Paul
Mottram
(PRS)
YS GROUP PHOTO
HIGH WIDE SHOT
Yacouba and his family gather for
a group photograph. It will mark
the end of an eventful year.
48.29
37
MCU YS PANS TO
BOY
There remain many unresolved
problems. The battle to defend his
home against the encroaching city
is far from over, but there is some
respite.
The authorities have at least
agreed to leave his forest alone
And despite the continued threat
to the rest of his land,
Yacouba find reasons to be
optimistic
YS VO PHOTO
SESSION
CU YS
FREEZE FRAME
FADE TO BLACK
I FEEL VERY GOOD ABOUT MY PRESENT
SITUATION
IF I ASK GOD FOR SOMETHING HE GIVES IT TO
ME.
TODAY I CAN SAY THAT THE SHEIK’S
PREDICTIONS HAVE COME TRUE
BECAUSE EVERY MORNING WHEN I WAKE UP
AND ASK GOD FOR SOMETHING
I’M CONFIDENT THAT HE WILL HELP ME DO IT.
AS LONG AS I HAVE GOT GOOD STUDENTS
MY WORK CAN BE TAUGHT …
..EVEN AFTER I HAVE GONE.
48.58
49.36
CAPTION HOLD
WE THANK THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE FOR THEIR
GENEROUS HELP AND SUPPORT DURING THE MAKING OF
THIS FILM
THE RESIDENTS AND MARKET TRADERS OF OUAHIGOUYA
THE STAFF AND PUPILS OF POEDOGO KORANIC SCHOOL
THE RESIDENTS OF RANAWA
OUAHIGOUYA POLICE
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CREDIT HOLD
CREDIT ROLLER
CAPTION
CAPTION
FADE TO BLACK
END
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MUSIC OUT
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