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First Book of the New Year! Puukare by Ceerno Seydu Sàll
Reading Puukare in Wolof is an exquisitely exhilarating experience, making us more aware of the importance of values like solidarity, compassion and hard work, the core values, one might say, of a truly harmonious social life. With Puukare, Ceerno Seydou Sall is holding up a mirror to his compatriots and to Senegalese society as a whole forcing each person to look at his own reflection, a potentially painful exercise in self-examination, whether we like it or not. In essence, these beautiful poems are a reminder to us to respect all human beings; they also tell us never do to others what we would not want them to do to us.
Puukare is published by EJO — A new Senegalese publishing house with great ambition. EJO is a Kinyarwanda word meaning both yesterday and tomorrow. Ejo states that,"publishing in African languages, and promoting them, is in direct line with the teachings of their mentor Cheikh Anta Diop. At the core of Diop’s thoughts and writings was the firm belief that Black Africans need to better know their past and be proud of it in order to be able to face the challenges of the future. The choice of a Rwandan name for a Senegalese publishing house is a way to underscore the Pan-Africanist ideals whose importance Cheikh Anta Diop made us so aware of.
Reading Puukare in Wolof is an exquisitely exhilarating experience, making us more aware of the importance of values like solidarity, compassion and hard work, the core values, one might say, of a truly harmonious social life. With Puukare, Ceerno Seydou Sall is holding up a mirror to his compatriots and to Senegalese society as a whole forcing each person to look at his own reflection, a potentially painful exercise in self-examination, whether we like it or not. In essence, these beautiful poems are a reminder to us to respect all human beings; they also tell us never do to others what we would not want them to do to us.
Puukare is published by EJO — A new Senegalese publishing house with great ambition. EJO is a Kinyarwanda word meaning both yesterday and tomorrow. Ejo states that,"publishing in African languages, and promoting them, is in direct line with the teachings of their mentor Cheikh Anta Diop. At the core of Diop’s thoughts and writings was the firm belief that Black Africans need to better know their past and be proud of it in order to be able to face the challenges of the future. The choice of a Rwandan name for a Senegalese publishing house is a way to underscore the Pan-Africanist ideals whose importance Cheikh Anta Diop made us so aware of.
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