A video showing a man on his roof, refusing to leave his building, before its demolition was making the rounds on social networks. Nearly 10,000 residents of the riverside areas of Cotonou have faced forced evictions since 2017 according to an Amnesty International report.

The Africa Journal received Abderrahmane Sissako. A director who has engraved the name of certain African cities like no one before in the collective imagination. He returns 10 years later, with a new film - Black TEA.