Plot

Mame is six years old, happily at home with his parents and playing in the fields, forests and nearby rivers with friends. Loved and well fed, he leads an idyllic life. In one fateful decision, all that changes. Mame’s father was once sent to the marabout (prophet) Serighe Moussa as a youngster by his father, and is determined that Mame follows that tradition. The boy, he tells his wife Fatma, needs discipline and learning. And that is precisely what the Islamic school run by the local marabout offers. Despite strong opposition from Fatme – Mame is hastly whisked off to the school. Mame encounters at the Islamis school – is nothing short of a grim regime of work in dusty fields, constant study of the Koran, insufficient food and brutal beatings by the more impatient adults. Worse is to follow. One of Serighe’s acolytes (trainers/aids) - N’diaga, goes to the nearby city with the three of the boys, including Mame. There they trawl the streets begging for alms to support N’diaga and the school - in one fateful moment Mame’s fate is sealed.

Mame N'Diaye



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