The narrator addresses her best friend again as she nostalgically remembers the all-girl school that she and Aissatou attended.
The goal of the education they receive there is to emancipate these girls, who originated from the now defunct French West Africa, from the traditional roles of African women. Armed with the belief that she has been emancipated, the eighteen-year-old narrator doesn't felt obligated to listen to her mother and ignores Daouda Dieng, the boy her mother prefers over Modou. He is a single physician who showers the narrator and her mother with gifts, yet she chooses to marry Modou instead. Her entire family disapproves their non-traditional simple ceremony.
The narrator remembers Aissatou's wedding to Mawdo Bw. The people show skepticism toward Aissatou and Mawdo Bw as a couple. They insist that Aissatou is not good.....
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