WHY?
Where do Africans learn to play soccer? Well, on bare ground with no facilities whatsoever. Soccer relaxes and creates connections. What about the red earth? They attribute it to the blood that has been shed on Mother Africa.
WHAT?
Burkina Faso is mostly desert. The pump in the foreground is a metaphor for the eternal struggle between scarcity of water and the need to drink. Here, people must work for their water, even in the middle of the city.