Portrait of an African Woman(1985)

Name: Portrait of an African Woman
Director: Sarah Maldoror
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1985-01-01
Duration: 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.