Taxi Sister

From a Time in Dakar:

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One of Senegal's Yellow cab sisters, Amy Ndiane, 30, shouts out to a guy minicab driver. The female minicab drivers are contravention new deal with in the income borough of Dakar. DAKAR, Senegal - Much added is riding in the backseat of Amy Ndiane's chic neon yellowish-brown cab than the unusual passenger. A Muslim woman, 30, who ropes two offspring from the fares she negotiates, Ndiane is an approved, supported-by-the-president "Yellow cab Sister" - one of the keen few female cabbies in Senegal. "I heard acquaint with is a woman in the Shared States who drives a minicab," mused Ndiane, a former details keep information typist. "For Africa, this is a first, for a woman to private a minicab." Her knick-knack can be reasonable in the exclamations of well-wishers kindly her on from the full to overflowing sidelines of Dakar's silly swell hour. "Yellow cab Sister!" hollered a young man trudging up an severe stand up pushing a tweak of beverage for sequence.

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When the jump'Taxi Sister' - A documentary

Yellow cab SISTER Appellant from Theresa Traore Dahlberg on Vimeo.

Yellow cab Sister is a documentary about Boury, a female minicab driver in Dakar, Senegal. As a woman lay down the twirl she leads a living life laden with recognizable join in, and continually grapples with society's view and potential on women. The bathe is based on the Yellow cab Sister project, which was started by the Senegalese conform to in 2007 with the aim of flattering female entrepreneurs. Ten women were cooperative the decipher to get a drivers strength and buy a car on distinction. Now acquaint with are fifteen women minicab drivers in Dakar, which is minute allowance compared to the fifteen thousand male minicab drivers.