Aunty Nabou’s Journey
Aunty Nabou’s journey to her ancestral village of Diakhao symbolizes and enacts a kind of passage through time—particularly a passage backwards in time. As Nabou moves further inland, further from cosmopolitan Dakar, she immerses…
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The Motorcycle
The motorcycle that knocks down Ramatoulaye’s sons Malick and Alioune is a physical manifestation of modernity. Just as the motorcycle comes crashing into the boys at play, the forces of modernity—globalization, imported vices, Western…
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