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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Nianga Thiam
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.67,0:00:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am Senegalese, living in Burkina Faso
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.89,0:00:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a restaurant owner. I was born here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.72,0:00:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After 1998 I started in a restaurant.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.40,0:00:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After high school I got a degree in computer science.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.32,0:00:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when I realized there aren't any Senegalese restaurants in Burkina Faso.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.38,0:00:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided to open my restaurant slowly.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.14,0:00:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started with 2 kg of rice from the thiéboudienne
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.05,0:00:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we were preparing at home. I was reselling it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.82,0:00:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's how I started little by little.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.53,0:00:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we have two restaurants.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.55,0:00:49.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After high school, as I said before, I got a degree in computer science.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.80,0:00:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father's business went bankrupt.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.05,0:00:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was then that I decided to go into the restaurant business.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.50,0:00:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I needed to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.87,0:00:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when I decided to start, little by little.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.78,0:01:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when I decided to start, little by little.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.91,0:01:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prepared small portions
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.42,0:01:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ran around everywhere looking for customers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.25,0:01:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I invited friends to my house to taste my dishes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.56,0:01:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said it was good.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.54,0:01:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So next we started up the restaurant.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.07,0:01:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to hire couple of people to help prepare the meals
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.14,0:01:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We make Senegalese thiéboudienne and mafe
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.32,0:01:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is peanut butter and tomato sauce
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.62,0:01:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we make Arabic couscous, gumbo, salad, spaghetti, as well as tô,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.21,0:01:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we make in the evening, with gumbo sauce and sorrel sauce.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.67,0:01:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's in the evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.36,0:01:54.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dishes cost 700 francs (about $1.12)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.52,0:01:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except for tô, which costs 100 francs per ball (about 16¢)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.93,0:02:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The customers say the restaurant is good, and it's clean.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.96,0:02:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We received a food hygiene prize three times.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.17,0:02:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't my dream to start a restaurant, I wanted to finish my studies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.70,0:02:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after all, my life changed and I decided to do something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.27,0:02:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to show people it's not just school
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.36,0:02:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is the only path to success in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.78,0:02:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course it helps us
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.40,0:02:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you have something else to do, you can do it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.91,0:02:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we have more than 30 employees
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.90,0:02:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My family is very proud of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.62,0:02:44.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really thanks to this that I have supported my brothers and sisters in their studies
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.78,0:02:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have one brother who is an entrepreneur
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.28,0:02:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are proud of me.