A personal project exploring soccer as both colonial tool and vessel of cultural resilience across West Africa. Introduced through empire, the game became a language of freedom and identity. France built its football mythology on players rooted in these places – power imposed, culture reclaimed. These images hold contradiction: PSG crests beside cowry shells, Nike swooshes alongside crocodile patterns, red shoes rooted in memory. Shadow as ancestral echo. The ball as talisman, inheritance, prayer. This project lives in the in-between, where identity isn't performed but inhabited. Where athletes move with the weight of those who came before and the urgency of those rising after.

What does it mean to wear Paris on your chest and Dakar in your bones? To excel in systems never built for you? To stand in light and carry shadow as truth, not burden?

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