Podcast of Retour Soninké Book - English

Audio of Retour Soninké book in English divided into episodes.

The abandoned child who turned his wounds into destiny

It began in the red dust of Lambidou, very early, with the unspeakable: abandonment, solitude, a broken childhood. While other children played with their fathers, he watched them from a distance, his heart tight. While their laughter rang out, he was learning to play alone, or to take shelter in the arms of a mother who carried, alone, the whole weight of the world.

A childhood of suffering, a will of iron

This child grew up with deep scars, invisible to others but burning within him. The humiliations, the deprivations, the injustices, the nights without a bearing. All of it could have extinguished him. Yet he chose to rise. To turn pain into strength. To make of every wound a proof that he could keep moving forward.

From exile to rebirth

From Guinea to France, his path is an initiatory crossing. From the millet fields to the corridors of a retirement home in Paris, he rebuilds his dignity, his identity, his future. The abandoned child becomes a man who stands upright, a man who refuses to let his past define his end.

Soninkara as you have never read it

This book opens the doors of the Soninké world with a raw honesty: sacred traditions, strict social codes, polygamy and its wounds, communal hypocrisy, solidarity, loyalty, betrayals, exile, migration, survival, and above all, the beauty of a thousand-year-old culture.

Everything that is hidden, everything that is silenced, everything that no one dares to say is revealed here, with courage and clarity.

A book to understand, to feel, and to discover

To understand Soninkara, you must read this book.

To know the truth, you must enter these pages.

To grasp the depth of a people, the rigour of its rules and the beauty of its values, you must follow this path.

A true story, a universal lesson in life.

This is not merely the biography of one man.

It is the rebirth of an abandoned child.

It is the proof that one can survive anything, even the invisible.

It is the proof that one can succeed, even when no one believes in us.

It is a call to resilience, to truth, to transmission.