The Great Green Wall

Malian singer and activist Inna Modja makes a west to east transcontinental journey through the Sahel in sub-Saharan Africa to promote and find out the status in the various parts of the region of the Great Green Wall, an initiative to plant a wall of trees the entire expanse of the Sahel. That promotion includes musical collaborations with various other African musicians. Outwardly, the initiative is to combat the geographically negative effects of climate change, primarily to protect the Sahel from desertification with the encroachment of the Sahara. But the initiative has many deeper underlying goals to combat that climate change largely resulting in insecurity in many forms, leading to issues such as mass migration, often dangerous, out of Africa, and increasing threats against those already at risk, especially females, at the hands of such groups as Boko Haram, these issues which are highlighted by many of the interviewees.