The sequel to Shea Butter: From Tree to Nuts
Created for Malian National Television, this video teaches rural Malian women how to make improved shea butter. (Local production techniques result in a shea butter that cannot be exported. New techniques and the formation of cooperatives allow women to export their butter for a profit). The production was shot in a rural village in Mali, West Africa. One woman teaches another how to improve her practices in order to make export-quality shea butter.
To see how the nuts are gathered and processed before making the shea butter, see the prequel video, “Shea: From Tree to Nuts”
The video has been aired on ORTM, the national TV station, and used in training events in Mali. The women in this video, Minata and Afu, are part of a new cooperative that is now selling their shea butter for a profit.
In Bambara with English subtitles.