Oumou Mariko

Oumou lives in her father's extended family, with her parents and 5 siblings. She is the third child. Her father works in a factory, her mother is a housewife. She supports the family's income by shaking out the remaining cement from the cement bags collected at construction sites and selling it. Every child goes to school. Oumou really likes to draw and watch TV in the neighborhood, cartoons are her favorite. She likes to help her mother with cooking. When she grows up, the curvy, determined little girl wants a real car and when she grows up she wants to be like the "white man".