(10 Oct 2024)
MALI WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
SOURCE : ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bamako, Mali – 20 September 2024
1. Various of patients from the psychiatric ward of Bamako’s Point G hospital dancing and drumming before participating in a theater program that uses traditional Malian theater, called “Koteba”
2. Mamadou Diarra, a patient, chants as part of a performance
UPSOUND: (Bambara) “Hee hee ha ha ha ha, you don’t know anything. You don’t know anything. Just nonsense!”
3. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Mamadou Diarra, patient:
“No, I’ve never done any kind of theater before. I’ve never danced. But once I started, God gave me the knowledge of these things. Everything I try, I succeed. That’s the kind of person I am.”
4. Diarra chants as part of a performance
UPSOUND : (Bambara) “I’m going home! I’m going home!”
5. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Mamadou Diarra, patient: “You know what my problem is? That I see things for what they are.” Off camera response from troupe director Adama Bagayoko: UPSOUND: (Bambara) “Okay, we’ll lighten the load for you.”
SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Mamadou Diarra, patient: "okay, understood"
6. Wide of Diarra dancing
7. Diarra and the theater program director Adama Bagayoko shaking hands
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Adama Bagayoko, director of theater troupe: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“Firstly, I will talk about mental illness. It happens at a moment when all contact is cut off, when you are completely excluded. This is when we say someone is “crazy”. When they come here and see through the Koteba that they aren’t excluded because we give them the floor. We touch each other, we talk to each other, we dance together, we laugh together. This is the importance of Koteba. To touch someone shows that we are equal. To listen to them shows that they are important, and what they say is important."
9. Patients talking with microphones during the theater performance
10. One of the theater program facilitators singing with the patients
11. Wide of patients dancing
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Souleymane Coulibaly, clinical psychologist at Point G hospital:
“In therapeutic, psychiatric practice in Mali, people who were working in mental health looked into research of certain endogenous (internal) methods to use culture to help people who suffer from mental illnesses.”
13. Various of patients and facilitators performing together
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Souleymane Coulibaly, clinical psychologist at Point G hospital:
“It’s a technique that comes from our tradition. Koteba is a traditional technique that was developed in the Bambara culture to address social problems, which are often dramatic, with the goal of de-dramatizing them, and to improve relationships.”
15. Patients and facilitators performing together
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Adama Bagayoko, director of theater troupe: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“We ask them on what topic they want us to play. They propose the theme of the day. It’s not us. From their proposition we create something, and we do it with them. It’s not us as performers who have an agenda, we have to ensure that the patients can take part and express themselves through something that they proposed.”
17. Various of patients and facilitators acting out a scene where a man is accused of theft in a village
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In Mali, one of the capital’s main hospitals is using theater to help people with mental illness.
Patients receiving psychiatric care perform using the traditional Koteba theater genre as part of their treatment programme.
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