Percussionist of international fame, former soldier for the French and later Guinean armies, father of a family of 34 children, head hunter, “chieftain”… The social standing of Fadouba Oularé is compound. His story, from Faranah to Conakry, progressively draws itself, from the narration by the Griot or by his friends, to his representation on the mural paintings of the People’s Palace. A powerful, surprising and sometimes tragic tale that however never overtakes this man of action always on the move. An action that he leads within a complex reality where traditional music, military dictatorship, precariousness and animism coexist...