Les Diambourou: Esclavage et émancipation à Kayes - Mali from bbc english news live tv Watch Video
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Description: Synopsis: nnSlavery was officially abolished in French Sudan (nowadays Mali) by the French colonial administration in 1905 but effective emancipation of former slaves happened to be a very long process, which would still be topical beyond the Independence of Mali in 1960. nOur documentary film collects the memories of slavery in Kayes. By telling the story of those who resisted slavery by escaping their masters and by founding new independent and free communities in the district of Kayes in the