Aliya Bertout works as an office manager for a French company. She is also a poet, and at Xenotheque 2020 she read a poem she wrote in her grandmother’s native tongue of Obamba.
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Recipe: Chicken Mafe, a flavorful West African dish.
Aliya Bertout works as an office manager for a French company. She is also a poet, and at Xenotheque 2020 she read a poem she wrote in her grandmother’s native tongue of Obamba.