Portrait of an African Woman
Portrait of an African Woman

Portrait of an African Woman

January 01, 1985 | 6 min

In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams of traveling throughout France and getting to know her adopted country, taking issue with the cliché of the impoverished and helpless immigrant.

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