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Category:
Travel, Sport & Adventure, Collections - Series

Keywords:
Travel, Discovery/Adventure


Producer(s): VM GROUP

Length:  1x53

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: International: overdub

Nationality: France

Year: 2002

Rights: WORLD

Support(s):  SD – Digital 4/3 , SD - Beta SP

Collection: TRUCK STOP

CAMEROON, ON THE COTTON TRAIL

Director(s): Hervé REBILLON – Writer(s): Hervé REBILLON   Contact Contact   Download Print page

The plains of the Bénoue River are home to Cameroon’s « white gold », the country’s cotton fields. It takes two or three days on a 500-km pot-holed, accident-prone track to transport the precious cargo before the rainy season sets in. It’s a hazardous journey for truck drivers Amadou and Daouda who take us through the bush country of Northern Cameroon. It’s a predominantly Islamic region divided into individual kingdoms that rule the daily life of the villagers as well as that of the truck drivers. A voyage into the heart of the real Africa…
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