What’s Africa? What’s universal?

“Eyes of the Statue”

What will happen and who knows what will happen?

- the narrator? the girl?

Is the statue the ruler or just an image of him?

- the penetrating, following power of the eyes

Paradox of the art

- it contains, echoes the viewer

“A Meeting in the Dark”

Self-interest, tribal needs vs. external force, foreign thinking, specifically…

Christianity-

Female circumcision- performed as a traditional rite

Due to Wamuhu & John’s unplanned pregnancy,

John and Sarah

“Sarzan”

Keita returns to his village, Dougouba

He’s changed due to his experience, military, in Europe and North Africa

Considers his tribe’s/village’s ways as savage

After desecrates village shrines, blocks animal sacrifices and holy places , he becomes Sarzan (sergeant)
the mad

He wants to civilize his tribe: “It was necessary to break with tradition”

Cultural change, pace is a given for Westerners?