El Hadji Salifou Ouédraogo has nurtured thousands of baobab trees from tiny seeds to expansive forests for the past 47 years. The trees in turn help his family, his village and the Earth.
Filmmaker Michel K Zongo’s uplifting film, The Man Who Plants Baobabs, meets this charismatic old man with a youthful spirit and a lifelong commitment to his trees, which are both a lifeline and a legacy for his community.
Michel K Zongo is a cinematographer and director based in Burkina Faso. He has made three feature-length documentaries that have screened internationally and won several awards. He is also the artistic director of the Koudougou Doc Festival and has been an Academy (‘Oscars’) member since 2020.
Happy New year……..2022….
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I respect everyone who were involved in this Seriously the best piece that i ve ever seen on YouTube 💌 Hate off to well all 💟 love your videos ❤ .
WONDERFUL! What a beautiful soul. 😍😇 God bless him and his family and village ALWAYS and in ALL WAYS. 🙏
Hopefully OPRAH or some other BILLIONAIRE will see this and donate a few WELLS to this lovely man and his village. 🙏🙏🙏😊
TabarakAllah
“If the Hour comes and one of you has a seedling in his hand, let him plant it”.
Prophet Muhammad.
Exactly what I was thinking…This man is doing what is very necessary..
Just wait until Montesanto got interested and spills there their zombie seed…
Beautiful!!! 🌏🙏🏾💚💙💜💫 There are men who destroy forests, towns and peoples to create their legacy. And then there are men like this who plant one tree and then another and whole ecosystems and continents will sing his name til the ends of time. These are the true legacies we should each strive to leave behind. God Bless!
Masha allah loves from india islam teaches to plant trees and protect environment
Very peaceful humble people. In countries where people claim to be first & rich countries. People living there are often in stress depressed miserable hate&fear & anger 😡😡😡 mood.
Great man may GOD bless you 🙏
I swear by the name of God that many of these trees are medicinal that repeated use of the same keeps away even the diseases of civilization.
If paying for the audible video interpers is so hard, then give more time for the viewers to be able to read the interpreted scripts.
If Bill Gates or Rockefeller see this, they will insist on chemicalizing and GMOing this one too. The western elites are smarter than the creator of nature who made them
May Allah bless this man and his family. He’s inspiration to mankind.
amazing
Mashallah! Wow! Wisdom, strategy and determination! trees are life.
I think anyone that’s not from Africa should not have an opinion on the matter….
Am from India 🇮🇳
It’s up to all melanated people across the planet to combat climate change 🌍 using our ancestor’s techniques & adopting their ancient lifestyles
Baobabs require little water when mature & its seasonal fruits are exported to the US where it is used to make pharmaceutical products & medicines. A much better investment than seasonal crops which many Africans plant for their own survival. Planting trees than can grow for a 1000 years is the way to go
Beautiful Burkina Faso 🇧🇫🇧🇫🇧🇫
Wow! Wonderful work this man is doing by planting these trees.
Omg i did not expect this kind of news from you. Keep going
beautiful human spirits 💒💒💒
We can crowd sources some solar panels and electric battery power augers for the planters so they can plant even more trees. These villagers can also benefit from solar powered pump and irrigation for some of their crops and green house
This is the kind of leadership that is so inspiring
Respect for the person
The man when he walks you can tell how health he is and who lives in first world countries with junk menu
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You all need to talk about ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress
Lots of love and prayers for you and your family from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳❤️🙏
brilliant, well done. Another example of an extemporary human being doing what we should all be doing. What a great man and his family showing the way. God bless Africa.
Belle initiative , longue vie à vous
I can’t believe that one man and his family is responsible for this beautiful nature, I am so proud, to all the young men running to Europe, stay home and create your own Europe, outstanding, bless this man with long life, he is full of wisdom
No one wants to leave their home, it’s because Europe has always been stealing and brutalizing this communities
@baldeh4 –Let us be honest, if Europe did not ””steal and brutalize Africa””’ would the Africans know what to do with the resources? billions of dollars of resources are still there, in diamonds, raw ore, and oil, not to mention fertile land and water, billions have been given to the post colonial governments of Africa as reparation for the past injustices, YET they mismanage it all, stealing it for their family friends and the army, instead of using it to develop their countries, a few months ago, two African leaders sons, were caught on hidden camera, buying 19 Armani suits, EACH ,in France. I was in a train, in Italy, some Africans came in, and all the white passengers, left for another car , they are not wanted, they are scorned, these strong young men, leave Africa to ”’park’ cars in Europe for peanuts, sleeping on the streets, and being fed once daily, like dogs, by NGOs look at this blessed old man, and what one family has accomplished, O Great sons of Africa where is thy dignity, if you turn yourselves into doormats, people will wipe their feet on you
Wow!!! What a Legend!!! 👍👍👍
Thank you Al-Jazeera for covering this amazing project of an African Legend. The governments of the continent don’t know the importance of such a life saving project
What a great man. He really has found his life’s goal. May ALLAH GRANT YOU LONG LIFE AND JANNAH.
“Society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they never sit.” This man is even more lucky, since he gotta see a bit of the fruit of his labor before he is a memory.
Thanks very much for message
Wrote on baobab on climate mission platform last 2020. This idea original in climate mission platform
My country Burkina 🇧🇫🇧🇫🇧🇫🇧🇫
What a blessed profession!!!!
May God bless this man and his family,he is doing a great job.
I have stories told to me about the baobab 🌳
I respect you old man
Even though tomorrow is the end of the world, still plant it even if it’s just a tree.
Great work
He’s a real hero 🦸♀️
Baobab trees are called tree of life. I knew the fruit was edible but to eat the leaves is a revelation. Very educational. Not many know about Baobab tree benefits. Hats off to this Gentleman. Thank you for making this documentary.
And the leaves are very rich in iron.
What a very hard work man
Humble,vigilant
Difenetly words is insufficient
To Express this man
My Allah preserve and bless you
Nice. It would be good if someone also helped them with electricity. I didn’t see electricity in the houses I showed, maybe they would live better with electricity and light overnight, or at least in the evening. With electricity, a pump might help.
Incroyable ce vieil homme ! Si seulement tout le monde choisissait une espèce de plante qu’il planterait autant que ce que fais El Hadji Salifou OUÉDRAOGO, la désertification allait changer de direction et il ferait mieux vivre dans ce monde ! Que Dieu bénisse cet homme et tous ceux qui l’aident à accomplir une tâche aussi merveilleuse !
May Allah bless you and grant you highest paradise Hadjie. May Allah reward you for every blessing of the trees you planted and continue to reward you and those who maintain youre legacy until the day of judgement. Ameen
This brother is a real hero!!! Salute!
Wounderful!
May God bless this people’s great work, this’s what wealth and happiness is.
It’s amazing to watch this video. According to the Hadith of the Rasul PBUH”When human being dies his deeds end except for three things: Ongoing charity[ Like in the case of Alh Salifou.],beneficial knowledge,or a righteous pray for him.And in another, He mentioned” There is none among Muslim who plant a tree or sows a seed,and then bird or person or an animal eat from it , but regarded as a charitable gift from him”. May Allah bless Alh Salifou. With lone from Nigeria
My country, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫
El Hadji Salifou Ouedrago is a truly great individual. Watching this individual doing inspired work has given me hope for the New Year in broken world, waiting in fear of the effects of Climate Change. “Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” Do small things that will bear fruit in the long run.
You make me remember my village, I really love planting trees very much….
I love the soup from the leaves.
That happens in his face he knows he achieve so much then most of us did running after toys and papers Masha Allah beautiful report
If they planted long rooting grasses around the trees that would definitely help hold more water in and around the soils than let long some pigs or cattle come through
This is amazing. Beside, the guy is really charismatic
How can I donate to Al Hadji please?
Al Jazeera please help this wonderful man to build wells
This is what all of us must do to help reduce and matigate the effects of climate change
Now Al Jazeera you are coming back damage Africa, after Ethiopian race, we are tired of you, you are hated In black community
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Hats off to this great African conservationist. May he plant more trees in Burkina Faso. Good story to end this pandemic ridden year, 2021.
Asla walaikum.maybe people in agricultural sector can help…
May Allah accept him.
Beautiful
je ne peux pas vous dire a quel point je suis tres touche je suis amoureuse de la nature . vraiment que le tout puissant t accorde une longue vie
si vraiment c est possible je voudrai avoir El Hadji contact et promet de le visiter in sha Allah lors de mon voyage en Afrique. merci pour ce video qui donne une voie a la jeunesse d aujourdhui
Agriculturists feeds the World. Keep it up
El Hadji Salifou Ouédraogo 👍 >> Greta 👎
This man is a happy man. He has a healthy philosophy of life.
Lovely and amazing.
He should however increase by a factor of five, the distance between the trees. Baobab trees are not Mangoes, nor citrus trees. They ought to get the respect their age , size, spirit, and prowess deserves.
Lovely work, may his successors zeal increase.
Wow that’s wonderful kudos to you sir 🙏
Good work jah bless you
My respect and Allah s.w.t.bless you my Muslim brother.
We need him in Northern Nigeria as our local experts don’t appear to be effective as the dessert spreads southwards.
Thus a Legend was Born: Hadji Bao Seed…