TV satire series is safety valve in troubled Burkina
Your country is one of the poorest in the world, battered by a bloody jihadist insurgency and last year underwent two military coups.The imam is played by Rasmane Ouedraogo, a 70-year-old actor who in real life is a member of a civilian militia, the Volunteers for Defence of the Fatherland (VDP), which supports security operations against the jihadists.