Aminata Sow Fall

Aminata Sow Fall (born April 27, 1941) is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French. She is considered "the first published woman novelist from francophone Black Africa".https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aminata_Sow_Fall&action=edit Quotes In life, you have to make choices. My choice is to write.http://www.bookshybooks.com/2017/06/100africanwomenwriters-9-aminata-sow_19.html?hl=en-US#:~:text=Aminata%20Sow%20Fall.%20by%20bookshy%20%2D%2013%3A55.,Washington%20Post.%20And%20write%20she%20has%20done. All great works begin in the imagination... and a human being who does not dream realises nothing." Begging is a crutch for this society. Yes, we do need it, but it is a need that we created. It is not an inherent need. If we take it away, we don't know what to do with ourselves." We think that our salvation is based, in part, on our charitable offerings... Instead of creating a system where we can be charitable by not relegating someone to destitution, we say that we must have beggars so we can give alms... We isolate them in order to feel good about ourselves.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272709008_Aminata_Sow_Fall's_Works_A_Compendium_of_Development-Oriented_Issues?hl=en-US#:~:text=visas%20into%20the%20countries%20of%20their%20choice.,to%20change%20their%20ways%20for%20the%20better. I write about that light, the one that each of us has within us. I do not tell, I show a pattern, example, or path.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272709008_Aminata_Sow_Fall's_Works_A_Compendium_of_Development-Oriented_Issues?hl=en-US#:~:text=visas%20into%20the%20countries%20of%20their%20choice.,to%20change%20their%20ways%20for%20the%20better. Our world has changed so drastically that many people don't even recognise that light anymore – they've gotten so wrapped up in this or that, money, success, fame, that they've isolated themselves from themselves." Eldorado is not found at the end of the exodus but in the bowels of our land.http://www.bookshybooks.com/2017/06/100africanwomenwriters-9-aminata-sow_19.html?hl=en-US#:~:text=Aminata%20Sow%20Fall.%20by%20bookshy%20%2D%2013%3A55.,Washington%20Post.%20And%20write%20she%20has%20done. References