is the mosque real?


is the mosque in moolade a real mosque and if so, where is it located?

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In an interview (http://www.marxmail.org/INTERVIEW_SEMBENE.htm) Sembene has answered this question:

S. Gadjigo: Out of the fifty odd African countries, today more than 38 practice the excision. Then, why the choice of Burkina Faso and Djerisso when you could have also made the film somewhere else. Why Djerisso?

O. Sembene: I could have done it somewhere else, but I would not have had this setting that I searched for and didn't find except here. I simply looked for a village that responded to my creative desire. Why shouldn't I paint a rose black? I traveled thousands of kilometers. I went to Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Guinea Bissau. But when I saw this village I told myself: this is the village! But there's more: this hedgehog-like mosque in the middle of the village, its unique architecture in the Sub-Saharan region. This architecture wasn't inspired by outside influences, we owe it to the termite ants, to the anthills, the symbol of Moolaade. That's why I chose Djerisso.

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does anyone know where the remote village of djerisso is located in burkina faso?

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