“Cacao”, the new pan-African blockbuster from Canal + Africa

Text by: Sophie Torlotin Follow

Remove the oil and Dallas, replace with cocoa and Côte d'Ivoire and you get the ingredients for "Cacao", the new original series from Canal + Africa which arrives this Monday, June 15 on small African screens.

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Director Alex Ogou portrays the rivalries of two families competing for the West African brown gold market, the Desva and the Ahitey. “  For me, the interest of the series is to depict everything that happens in this environment through the prism of two families and their squabbles to have control of the cocoa. There is the whole panoply of human feelings that we are going to cross, between betrayal, jealousy, little blows and love. Me, that's what I liked, to have a kind of African-style "dynasty" these days.  "

For this pan-African blockbuster with a substantial budget, Alex Ogou called on actors from different countries, Côte d'Ivoire of course, but also Gabon, Senegal and Congo. “  I have great admiration, for example, for Fargass Assandé or Naky Sy Savané. I think they are film actors and I found it a shame not to see them enough. The dynamism of African cinema is a bit at half mast. They don't produce enough films, that's clear. I try to bring African cinema back to television.  "

This series has a total of twelve 50-minute episodes. And the universe is rich enough to consider a second season, if the success is there.

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