Burkina Faso: FESPACO

Burkina Faso is the country, its capital Ouagadougou, a second city Bobo, they knew they were at the end of the planet when they named it and decided to host a film festival. This place had captured my eye as I scanned my atlas at home, its name a testimony to the obscure. The capital is lined with unpaved, red dirt roads, a city centre that was demolished and never rebuilt, a few lone buildings left standing in a barren wind swept hollowed out centre with an ever rising dust storm. A land with a limp handshake that dissolves into index fingers and middle fingers intertwined to produce a joint finger click and finished off with index fingers pointed at each other.