Rédaction Africa Links 24 with pierre Dieme
Published on 2024-03-02 07:09:54
Sanou was a man full of knowledge and talents. He was a Pan-African, a thinker, a writer. I can say, with the numerous testimonies I have received, that you will leave a honored memory to your loved ones.
It has been 12 years since the coincidences of political polemics brought me in contact with the friend whose loss we mourn today. We found ourselves together around Alassane Samba Diop’s microphone for a lively show. We were supposed to oppose each other, but we understood each other on everything.
Since then, we have never parted.
He was in his “stagnant” period, retired in his paradise of Somone as he liked to call it.
Sanou was a man full of knowledge and talents. He was a Pan-African, a thinker, a writer.
I loved our long conversations about literature, politics, Africa, youth, beauty, sports. Everything was an opportunity to discuss. Sanou often told me what he knew, what he thought. He left with great intelligence.
Dear friend, I no longer remember which poet (you would have told me who) said “the dead live as long as they are loved”. So you will always live, because we will always love you.
May this assurance soften, when the pain of your loss is less acute, the dreadful pain of a united family struck by cruel blows in these last months.
I felt in you the wounds of the calamity that deeply marked you with the loss of your sons. What a trial! Since then, you have gradually detached yourself from the active and changing world.
Surrounded by a magnificent family, appreciated by all your friends, supported by the unchanging affection of a spouse whom you spoke of with love, you were able to slowly move towards that end where we all go.
Sanou, I can say, with the numerous testimonies I have received, that you will leave a honored memory to your loved ones.
Sanou, dear friend: I bid you farewell.
BY TIDIANE SOW
Read the original article(French) on Dakar Matin
