By miming children juggling ammunition found on the ground or driven mad by fear, the four acrobats hope to express what is too painful for words: how their native Burkina Faso's jihadist conflict has ruined countless childhoods.
Baptised "Souffle" (Breath), the Dafra Circus's latest performance "is about life... and when we talk about life we talk about hope, and hope means the children", the troupe's choreographer, Jean Adolphe Sanou, told AFP after a performance in neighbouring Ivory Coast.Â
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