AFRI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: African Studies
17 Mar 2016
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Exile, gender, ideology and african studies part 2. The belly of the atlantic a figure of speech (metaphor) Salie, the narrator of this story, is a senegalese woman now living in france. Her little half-brother, madick dreams of joining her there. He believes, like many of his senagalese brothers, that the route to france is via football. In his frequent phone calls to salie he begs her that if she can only get the fare to him he can get a trial with a french team and become rich and famous. She knows the truth about life as an immigrant and urges madick not to believe the mendacious stories of returnees like the man from barb s and others. The atlantic represents the freedom madicke has. Smooth and rough sailing to get to the belly aka where he wants to be in life.
