Ponty-ville: teaching college in Sebikotane
Characters:
Aissatou: R.'s friend and divorcee;
married once to Mawdo Ba
Ramatoulaye: narrator and widow
Modou Fall: R's husband; marries
Binetou
Tamsir: Modou's brother
Daba: R.'s daughter
Daouda Dieng-doctor who R.'s mother
wanted her to marry
Aunty Nabou: Mawdo's mother and
Princess of the Sine; she arranges Mawdo's second marriage
Farba Diouf-Aunty Nabou's younger
brother. From Diakhao
Nabou: Diouf's daughter and co-wife
to Aissatou, also Mawdo's cousin
References to Islam:
Koran
Allah
Mecca
Mosque
Prayer beads