- On a beach of Dakar Sophie meets Raoul Coly, a chef who manages an African restaurant in France and Raoul invites Sophie to visit the Casamance.So they take the ferry from Dakar to Ziguinchor.When they arrives it's raining in Ziguinchor, they cross the old town ( colonial architecture) and they meet "Kéba Rumba " Djidjaly , a drum maker and also musician who plays for them a drum and sings a nice song.Later they go to the market and they buy a dress for Raoul's mother.When they enter into the neighborhood, some nephews of Raoul appear and later they meet Raoul's mother and a lot of women (in Casamance the women used to form associations, to get together, to raise finds and to make donations in the social events such as burials or marriages).Later Raoul and Sophie pay a visit to the Abbé Jean-Marcel Sambou who spoke about the tolerance between Christians and Muslims in Casamance.Then they go to the football stadium where the Casa Sport will play against a team of Dakar: the football coach Athanas Tendeng is managing the Casa Sport and there is a great ambiance in the stadium (songs and dances).Later Raoul and Sophie make a dugout trip through the "bolongs" of the Casamance River, they see the mangrove and the oysters: they arrive at the touristic camp of Affiniam: they are received by Nestor-Jacques Sambou who shows the traditional huts for the guests, at the supper they eat a dish of algae and okra.Then Roul and Sophie travel to Kagnobon, there Pape El Hadji Sonko, a villager explains that the Koupu spirit, covered with palm fibers will dance to protect the harvests against the bad spirits.Then Raoul and Sophie travel to the Farm of Djibelor , managed by Gérard Martraux, who lives in Casamance since 42 years and grow ornamental plants, has a crocodile farm and a pineapple field.Then they go to Cape Skirring, a beautiful beach where cows are walking around (there Raoul began as touristic guide), they speak with a fisherman and buy cashew nuts and peanut.Finally the arrive at the Diembereng village, young boys are dancing the "Ekonkone " traditional dance before the wrestling flights. Besides we see zooms about the Casamance (the treaty of Berlin 1885 which gives to Portugal the Guinea Bissau territory and to the United Kingdom the Gambia territory), about the sinking of the ferry between Dakar and Ziguinchor on 2002 and about the measures to prevent a new disaster, about the female potters in Casamance, about the island of Karabane, and its new dock, about the mutual aid in fields, the men preparing the soils and the women sowing the rice fields, about the reforestation of the mangrove , about Joseph Diamacoune and his production of cashew nuts and the Indian traders who are very interesting in this product.—zutterjp48
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