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Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Mohammed Bangoura, 15, student of Kipé middle school and promising Basque pelota player, trains on the school's pelota court. His dream is to become a professional pelota player and to represent his country in international competitions.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Kipé middle school clean the school's pelota court before an interclass tournament. This area was built in 2020 thanks to a fundraising in France by the association Avenir Jeunesse Guinée.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Students from Kipé middle school gather around the pelota court, waiting for the beginning of the interclass tournament that takes place that day.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Young girls from Kipé middle school play ball at the back of the school, waiting for the beginning of the interclass tournament that takes place that day.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Kipé middle school warm up on the school's pelota court before an interclass tournament.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Kipé middle school warm up on the school's pelota court before an interclass tournament.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Two students from Kipé middle school compete in a match on the pelota court, during an interclass tournament.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Students from Kipé middle school warm up on the school's pelota court before an interclass tournament.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Kipé middle school support their classmates during an interclass pelota tournament.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A student from Kipé middle school plays a match with a classmate on the pelota court during an interclass tournament.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mr. Mara, the sport teacher of Kipé middle school, referees a match during an interclass tournament of Basque pelota. For the occasion, he is wearing a T-shirt with a Basque cross.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A student from Kipé middle school plays a match with a classmate on the pelota court during an interclass tournament. The game is tough and the young players are pushing hard in spite of the heat and dust.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mariam Camara is received in triumph by her friends and supporters after winning the interclass tournament of Basque pelota in the girls category.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mariam Camara is received in triumph by her friends and supporters after winning the interclass tournament of Basque pelota in the girls category.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Coyah middle school welcoming the delegation of the Guinean Federation of Basque Pelota, in the courtyard of their school.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Coyah middle school welcoming the delegation of the Guinean Federation of Basque Pelota, in the courtyard of their school. On this occasion, they sing the Guinean national anthem.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Two students from Coyah middle school compete in a Basque pelota match, in the courtyard of their school.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Two students from Coyah middle school compete in a Basque pelota match, in the courtyard of their school. The game is close and the two young players do not give up anything.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A student from Coyah middle school plays a Basque pelota match with a classmate, in the courtyard of their school.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A student from Kipé middle school practices Basque pelota on the court during break time. As the school has only a limited number of palas, the students use pieces of wood to play.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A teenage girl plays Basque pelota on the court of Kipé middle school during break time. Little by little, this sport becomes as popular as football among the students of the school.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A student from Kipé middle school plays a match of Basque pelota on the court, during a training session.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A student from Kipé middle school is about to serve during a Basque pelota training session on the court.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mohammed Bangoura, student of Kipé middle school and promising Basque pelota player, trains on the school's pelota court.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mohammed Bangoura spends time on the phone at every break during his Basque pelota training session. As a representative of the students of Kipé middle school and a big brother concerned about his family, the young man has a very busy schedule.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mohammed Bangoura leaves Kipé middle school after his Basque pelota training session. That day, exceptionally, he goes home by car.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mohammed Bangoura walks through his neighborhood to get home. Every morning and evening, the young man walks about forty minutes to reach his school and return home.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mohammed Bangoura doing ablution before going to pray, in the mosque of his neighborhood.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Mohammed Bangoura prays with his young brother in the mosque of their neighborhood.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Mohammed Bangoura and part of his family in the courtyard of their house. They are ten to live inside: his brothers and sisters, his aunts, uncle and cousins.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Bountou Camara, Mohammed Bangoura's aunt, is very proud of him. She wants to see him succeed and fulfill his dream of becoming a world-class Basque pelota player.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mohammed Bangoura shares a meal in the courtyard of his house with some of his family.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Mohammed Bangoura helps his young brother with his homework. The young man fully understands the necessity of education in the career of a professional athlete.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mohammed Bangoura in a mathematics class, wearing his uniform of representative of the students of Kipé middle school.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Mohammed Bangoura solves problems during a mathematics class at Kipé middle school.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Kipé middle school attend a mathematics class.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Kipé middle school practice on the Basque pelota court during break time.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Kipé middle school practice on the Basque pelota court during break time.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A student from Kipé middle school practices on the Basque pelota court during break time.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Dr. Mansaré shows the students of Kipé middle school how to lay down a person in distress in recovery position, during a Basque pelota training session on the court.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Students from Kipé middle school attend a lesson from Dr. Mansaré, who teaches them first aid, during a Basque pelota training session on the court.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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A student from Kipé middle school practices laying one of her classmates in recovery position, supervised by Dr. Mansaré who has just finished teaching a course, during a Basque pelota training session.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Persévérance carpentry, owned by Sékou Tidjma Camara, where the palas used by the students of Kipé middle school to play Basque pelota are made.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Sékou Tidjma Camara is finishing a Basque pelota pala which will then be sent to Kipé middle school, in his carpentry shop.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Employees at work in Persévérance carpentry. At the request of Charles Delamou, president of the Guinean Federation of Basque Pelota, they have already made forty palas. "For a pala, you need a board of two meters by thirty centimeters. It is not easy to make: the handle is thin," explains Sékou Tidjma Camara.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Teenagers play football on improvised fields on every street corner in the Guinean capital. "Football is a completely closed sector, focused on European clubs. With Basque pelota, young people have a real chance of representing Guinea in international competitions," says Charles Delamou, president of the Guinean Federation of Basque Pelota.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Streets of Kaloum, the historical heart of the Guinean capital, are always animated and saturated with nauseating gasoline smells. "To protect our young players, we wanted to have a pelota court in a school," says Matthieu Barlet, president of the association Avenir Jeunesse Guinée.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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A Muslim woman wearing a niqab and abaya in a religious neighborhood in the suburbs of Conakry. Islam makes up about 88% of the Guinean population and plays an important role in society.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Old election posters of deposed President Alpha Condé remind of the country's troubled recent past and the current agitated situation.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Young Guineans play football in a wasteland under the eyes of the country's new strongman, President Mamadi Doumbouya, who staged a military coup in September 2021.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Portrait of President Mamadi Doumbouya, the country's new strongman after he staged a military coup in September 2021, in a hotel in Conakry.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Prefect of Coyah, Colonel Alpha Oumar Cissé, supports the project to develop a Guinean Federation of Basque Pelota and to build sports facilities in the schools of his district. Since the military coup of September 5, 2021, members of the ruling junta have been occupying key positions in the new administration.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
Antonin Burat / Le Pictorium
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Charles Delamou, president of the Guinean Federation of Basque Pelota, is the initiator of the project to introduce this sport in the country. He hopes, in the long run, that high-level Guinean players can represent their country in international competitions.
Basque pelota in Guinea: the dream of Bangoura
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Minister of Education Guillaume Hawing meets with the delegation of the Guinean Federation of Basque Pelota in his office in Conakry. The initiators of this project hope that the development of this sport in the country will go through the school environment.
