Family spirit: Senegalese writer Ken Bugul and her Sene-Gambian grandson Modou N’diaye

Family spirit Senegalese writer Ken Bugul and her Sene Gambian grandson

Remember this cookie box that we opened 1 year ago while listening, hidden behind the station, to several conversations between grandmothers and granddaughters …. With always this question: how is the transmission between Baobab generation and generation 2.0?

Today, Family spirit (this is the name we give to this series that you will find as you go through our knitting), push the furniture and make room, all room for a tandem as beautiful as an improvised visit. On the one hand, Modou N’diaye, 24 years old, grandson very global village (he was born in Senegal, grew up in Gambia and crisscrossed the world) On the other hand, a novelist granny, who we have sketched In G Major recently, the 1999 Black African Literary Grand Prize for his trilogy The Crazy Baobab, Ashes and embers and Riwan or the sand path, I named: Ken bugul. Terrible nickname which in Wolof means nobody wants it. See that … Building your life on this nickname (which excludes) already says a lot about this very grown-up person, enamored of freedom, non-conformism and transmission …

(replay of February 3, 2021)

The music of the show

Faada Freddy Letter To The Lord

Ishmael Lo Jammu Africa

Grand Kalle Independance Cha Cha

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