Burkina Faso via Skype
A slice of cultural life in Burkina Faso is being beamed live into Frieze London. Operndorf Afrika (opera village), a cultural and educational project in the West African country, was founded by the German artist, theatre director and film-maker Christoph Schlingensief in 2010, six months before he died. Since then, it has grown to encompass a primary school with 250 pupils, a hospital ward, four homes for hospital employees and several guest houses. Add to that an artist-in-residence programme
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