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that had been offered up to Allah for as long as anyone living could remember.
5:24 PM May 16th, 2008
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as the nasal wailing of Kajali Demba, the village alimano, began calling men to the first of five daily payers
5:24 PM May 16th, 2008
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Thin blue smoke went curling up pungent and pleasant over the small dusty village of round mud huts
5:24 PM May 16th, 2008
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of porridge that was cooked in earthen pots over a fire built among three rocks.
5:24 PM May 16th, 2008
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as other women of the village pounded cous-cous grain in their mortars, preparing the traditional breakfast
5:24 PM May 16th, 2008
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the first sound the child heard was the muted, rhythmic bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp of wooden pestles
12:24 PM May 16th, 2008
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it was an hour before the first crowing of the cocks
12:21 PM May 16th, 2008
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and there was the prideful knowledge that the name of Kinte would thus be both distinguished and perpetuated.
12:05 PM May 16th, 2008
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but also upon the parents' families;
12:05 PM May 16th, 2008
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According to the forefathers, a boy firstborn presaged the special blessings of Allah not only upon the parents
12:04 PM May 16th, 2008
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and he was bawling. the two wrinkled mid-wives, old Nyo Boto and the baby's Grandmother Yaisaw, saw that it was a boy and laughed with joy.
11:58 AM May 16th, 2008
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o Omoro and Binta Kinte. Forcing forth from Binta's strong young body, he was as black as she was, flecked and slippery with Binta's blood,
11:57 AM May 16th, 2008
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Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days up-river from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born
11:57 AM May 16th, 2008
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