Apollo Akan. “Soukeyna studies marketing in Bordeaux. She had to ask the permission from the King of Grand-Bassam to borrow these clothes and jewellery. The outfit was worn by the Queen, her great grandmother, in the 1930s. She came to the studio with her mother, who was in tears at the resemblance between Soukeyna and her great grandmother. They brought an old portrait with them to the studio of her at 17”. (Photo by Joana Choumali/The Guardian)
