In Ireland, Brian Friel’s Translations is one of the country’s most celebrated plays.Themes of linguistic imperialism, colonial power, and identity run throughout and now for the first time in West Africa, Translations is premiering in Dakar with a Senegalese cast at a moment when France’s colonial legacy is being increasingly rejected, and the parallels feel striking. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent Caitlin Kelly.
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