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Flashmag February 2019 www.flashmag.net
Very soon you will find the taste of writing, composing your first show Yennenga, the epic of Mossé. Was it easier to write about a story inspired by your cultural creed?
The story of Princess Yennenga is more than known in Burkina, it’s a corner stone of our culture. I carried it in me and it is naturally that it imposed itself to me, during my first project of writing. It was also to create a link with my country, and to share my culture with the French public. But if the choice of the subject imposed itself, it doesn’t mean that the work of writing, was easy. When you create your first show, you are driven by a swirling energy, but you have everything to learn. Especially since, beyond
writing, I mounted this show alone, without financial support, it was a big adventure that I would never regret!
The artist's life in its bohemian sense, you have known it. At that time when you could barely pay your bills, what made you want to continue? And how did this period of struggle, influenced the artist and the woman you are today?
What made me want to continue was the desire to overcome, to succeed. I have experienced the sordid dwellings, the half-crook sleep merchants. My month ends were all difficult. Especially since I had to send money to Africa. Like many Africans in France