Guests on ITV's Niaccar program, Baba Zoumanigui and Yaye Fatou Diagne gave an in-depth analysis of the behavior of the sons of... in front of Lala Ndiaye and Professor Songué, following the article published by writer Zoumanigui on SenePlus.
Tragedy of the Sons of....
They don't have first names
They use their father's or grandfather's name
Who, valiant worker or scholar of renown
Revered for his work or adulated for his fortune
Offer to unworthy children successors
A name they proudly bear "Sons of......".
Sons of... often absent from knowledge forum
Untraceable at the crossroads of action
Lost in a world that is foreign to them
Open doors in their father's name alone
African society grateful for Nom
Reach out to them out of loyalty or respect
And is generous and tolerant
By opening his hands and heart to unworthy sons
In the name of a blood continuity of paternal virtues
That usurpers of the Name have not inherited
We tolerate all their excesses
They defy all bans
They're surrounded by naive profiteers and pleasure-seekers
That the Name attracts and serves as their chain mail
Freedom from duty and responsibility
Sons of.... are putrescent
They smell other people's money
They smell the fresh flesh of their carnal nights
They smell of alcohol and noxious herbs
Who drown their minds in a bath of chloroform
They are everything that the Africa of our fathers and our gods loathe.
Inherited or stolen money as an instrument of enjoyment
Impure air that pollutes their minds
And creates an opaque cloud
In which they lose all lucidity
Their parents, present or deceased
Often frightened by the horror of the film their offspring is watching
They suffer in silence, knowing their guilt
But mourn their innocence and invoke fate
They suffer for their Name scorned
Tossed aside by a raging press and networks
They suffer from the unworthy blood that feeds their veins
And cast doubt on the purity of their lineage
They suffer from compromises and indignities
Who forces them to come to their knees and beg for favor or forgiveness
They suffer from an afterlife where there is neither King nor Rich nor Chosen
And where the only thing that counts is each person's actions
They suffer from leaving this land
Leaving behind nameless threads
They suffer from time and oblivion
Who will have erased their work on this African soil
While their landmarkless descendants wander anonymously through the city
Les Fils de... live in the moment
They don't recognize themselves in the past or the future
Do not know their own history or that of their parents
Who, starting from nothing and reaching far, far up
Through work, sacrifice and virtue
command respect through their lives and their human or social work
The Sons of .... are the predators of the palaces of Africa and the West.
But also the privileged guests of the Oriental courts
To experience the tales of a thousand and one nights
And in spite of themselves, they forge all the negative clichés.
That make us angry
They've got the big words
The carefree look, debonair or sophisticated to the point of ridiculousness
Draped in skin-deep sensitivity
They spend their ill-gotten gains lavishly
And are nourished by the verbs Have and Be the Son of...
In their descent into hell
The sons and daughters of honest people
Who for one final evening of a programmed tragedy
Lacked discernment and character
And all end up as news items
Like the people of the Sons of...no one
Africa of Human Values and Dignity
Hold on to your children
They've gone mad
Awakens from their silence their blindness and deafness
Parents lost in the whirlwind of life
And give the Sons of ....
A First Name of which they will be worthy and Proud
BabaZou
Dakar
April 5, 2020
