From24Marchuntil15April
Festival Hors limites - It's in your head
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In a hybrid language, Seynabou Sonko invites her readers into the inner world of an engaging heroine. Djinns questions with great inventiveness the perception of mental illness in an environment where the supernatural has its place.
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When she learns that her friend Jimmy has been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, Penda sets out to join her grandmother Mami Pirate's healing practice to heal him and chase away his evil djinn. She sets out to learn without delay, but her dreadlocked white djinn has a mind of his own, making her task very difficult. Caught in a constant in-between situation, torn between her original culture - Senegalese - and her adopted culture - French -, between witchcraft and Western medicine, Penda...
When she learns that her friend Jimmy has been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, Penda sets out to join her grandmother Mami Pirate's healing practice to heal him and chase away his evil djinn. She sets out to learn without delay, but her dreadlocked white djinn has a mind of his own, making her task very difficult. Caught in a constant in-between situation, torn between her original culture - Senegalese - and her adopted culture - French -, between witchcraft and Western medicine, Penda comes to question her own beliefs.
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- On April 1, 2023 at 11:00 AM