Taafé Fanga

What if the men have to do the task of women, was the starting point of Taafe Fanga (Skirt Power). Adama brought with this comic an insightful look at sexual politics in Africa today, though it is set among the Dogon of the 18th Century. Through trickery and magic, the men of a Dogon town are made to believe that their survival depends upon their exchanging gender roles with the women of the town. So the women become the hunters, drinkers, deliberators, and bosses, while the men are forced to become the virtual servants that their wives and daughters had formerly been. While the men gain a new understanding of the burdens borne by the women, they not surprisingly find that the women are in no hurry to return to their former situation.

In Kaado and Bambara with Dutch and French subtitles.