How do fiction and series unlock certain social subjects?

"Mistress of a married man", a Senegalese television series.

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Polygamy, infidelity, sexuality, corruption: certain subjects remain taboo and therefore difficult to discuss in society.

Some series or podcast have decided to talk about it head-on, even if it means creating a scandal like the Senegalese series Mistress of a married man or more recently Infidels qualified as "perverse production inciting fornication and debauchery" by the Islamic NGO Jamra.

Yet these series - often bilingual Wolof-French - beat audience records.

Why such a dichotomy and such controversies? 

Publicity

With:

Tidiane

, director of the

, broadcast on RFI

Ibou Gueye

, director and screenwriter of the

And at the end of the program, a column by

, president of the

cabinet

,

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