![]() ![]() Penndo, however, is a nomad and loved roaming the region with her father and brothers. Yoro Ba has a beautiful daughter, Penndo, and, in gratitude to Bassirou for welcoming him, he offers his daughter to him, dowry-free, though Bassirou is quite old and already has three wives. He is on particularly good terms with Yoro Ba. His father, Bassirou Coumba Ndiaye, was a Senegalese farmer and unlike others in the village, he allowed the nomadic Fula herdsmen access to his artesian wells. This is the story of a such a troop as they faced the Germans in the trenches and, in particular, of two of them.Īlfa Ndiaye is our narrator. It is perhaps not generally known, at least in the English-speaking world, that Senegalese soldiers fought in World War I and, indeed, served in the trenches. Home » France » David Diop » Frère d’âme (At Night All Blood Is Black) David Diop: Frère d’âme (At Night All Blood Is Black) ![]()
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