"Odile works alongside Nathalie, founder of a small company producing 100% organic and fair trade shea butter. From time immemorial, shea trees have multiplied with the wind along this thin endemic strip of the South-Sahel, from the borders of present-day Senegal to those of the old kingdom of Ethiopia. The sacred tree is now threatened with eradication on huge stretches delivered to intensive cultivation and to the appetite of a few powerful leaders in the name of higher economic interests..."

Excerpt from "Titouan Lamazou for ethical shea", René Furterer 2011.