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Award-winning migrant actor Abou Sangaré granted right to stay in France

Abou Sangaré in Cannes, May 2024. © AFP - Valery Hache

Life imitates art: Abou Sangaré, a Guinean man living in France who won a prize at the Cannes film festival for playing an undocumented migrant seeking to stay in the country, has been granted a work permit, enabling him to do the same.

Abou Sangaré won rave reviews as the lead actor in last year's film L'Histoire de Souleymane (Souleymane’s Story) in which he played a food delivery cyclist in Paris who is preparing for an immigration interview.

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