"God forgive me, I had forgotten Maimouna."

"Today, I will bring back something to eat."

"The faces seemed to have lost all trace of personality. As if some giant eraser had rubbed out their individual trait…"

"Striking brutally through the cloud curtain, like the beam from some celestial projector, a single ray of light lashe…"

"I told you yesterday, Rama, that I couldn’t do anything more for you, or for any of the striker’s families."

"El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was what one might call a synthesis of two cultures: business had drawn him into the Europe…"

"To his surprise he found himself already regretting this third marriage. Should he get a divorce this very morning? H…"

"Just as nature re-imposes its life on ruins with small tufts of grass, the ancestral atavism of fetishism was being r…"

"In our country, this so-called 'gentry', imbued with their role as master—a role which began and ended with fitting o…"

"It is worth knowing something about the life led by urban polygamists. It could be called geographical polygamy, as o…"