In Congo-Brazzaville, agricultural yields are threatened by pollution.
25 kilometers from Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of the country, the farmers of the department of Kouilou have always lived off their harvests.
But they have seen their yields drop drastically in recent years.
Many point to oil exploitation, believing that it has caused the impoverishment of their land.
In Benin, the artistic group of Pépit'arts brings together very talented young children.
Percussionists, they promote the traditional songs and dances of their region of Ajarra.
This town is known as the "City of Drums", where the ancestral know-how of their manufacture is passed on from generation to generation.
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