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Colobane Express

All Films • 52m

Directed by Khady Sylla | 52 mins | 1999
Losing ground to more modern forms of transit today, the colorfully painted “car rapide” minibuses that criss-cross the crowded streets and avenues of Dakar at breakneck speed carrying passengers and merchandise have been icons of the city since first appearing in the 1970s. In "Colobane Express," Sylla anchors viewers alongside a car rapide driver and his green apprentice, capturing the frenetic, danger-fraught workaday routine of these daring individuals, in the process observing the noise, energy, and hustle of life in Senegal’s largest city.

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