Papa Diassé
Papa Baba DIASSE was born in 1969 in Kaolack (Senegal). After his master’s degree he stayed in England as a French language assistant at Portsmouth University in 2000. In 2002 he obtained the postgraduate certificate in American literature and the High School Teacher Certificate then stayed as a special student at Brown University in the US.
He was a part-time teacher at the department of English at Cheikh Anta Diop University, after his short stay in the US.
In 2006 he got an Education Inspector diploma from ENS current FASTEF (Dakar). After that, he held many positions of responsibility.
Ndeer is a story that highlights, in an African socio-economic and cultural context, the impact of sexist stereotypes on the individual and collective self, and the revolutionary awareness that facilitates the empowerment of women.
The work tells the story of a young woman who unwillingly stops her university studies because of a forced marriage. Bearing the cost of several traumatic experiences including the abandonment of the marital home by her husband, she fights hard to give meaning to her life.
Beyond gender based violence and the empowerment of African women, the author develops several hot topics: the crisis of values, the illegal emigration of young people, neo-colonialism, among others.
This book is a sincere call for genuine appropriation of the complementary roles and responsibilities that black men and women must play in the construction of an emerging African continent.
