Logo Sabria Djafar
Logo Sabria Djafar

Senegalese women experts
facing impostor syndrome

A project supported by the French Embassy in Senegal

 

This video series highlights the voices of Senegalese women who share, on camera, their experiences of impostor syndrome. Between personal confidences and practical tools, they question social norms, deconstruct internalized expectations and redraw the boundaries of professional and personal legitimacy.

Designed as a lever for empowerment, the series showcases inspiring journeys while offering a space to open the conversation, build self-confidence and shift perceptions in a context still too marked by doubt and silence.

My role in the project

  • Editorial research: developing the overall concept and selecting the topics covered.
  • Interviews and support for speakers: creating a climate of trust to gather sincere, heartfelt testimonies.
  • Art direction and shoot coordination: supervising the production and the visual identity of the series.
  • Writing the presentation texts: contextualizing the videos and writing the communication materials.
  • Post-production: following the edit, approving cuts, visual adjustments and proofreading the final versions.

    • Project goals

  • Encourage people to speak up about impostor syndrome in a French-speaking, African context.
  • Showcase the diversity of women’s stories and career paths.
  • Provide an awareness tool for institutions, NGOs and associations committed to gender equality and women’s mental health.
    • previous project

    Building connections.
    Creating meaning.
    Sharing differently.

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