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RADOUANE A MAN WHO WANTS TO SEE HIS FATHER

NOVEL FOR TEENAGERS

By Sandra BongjohPublished 3 years ago 9 min read
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This story takes place at night when the sky is dark.

It is in Senegal in the city of Dakar.

Everyone is in the house sleeping.

The Mouna family is one of the wealthiest families in the CP cap Mermoz district.

The Mouna family is one of the wealthiest families in the CP Cap Mermoz district. She lives in a large and comfortable villa in all the other towns in the area.

In a villa lives a woman with her only son who is a high school student. His name is Radouane. Radouane is a good student. He has always been a good student. He never had any rehearsals and rehearsals in school. His mom loves him because he's an only child and doesn't bother him at all. Radouane does not live with his father. His father has left him for several years so he does not know anything about his father's sudden disappearance when he was born.

When it is six o'clock Madame Mouna wakes up her son because he is about to go to school. Wearing uniforms The wearing of school uniforms in Senegal is the same as that of those in Ivorian high school.

Radouane wakes up, takes a shower and dresses in a uniform. He takes his cereals. The type of cereal with Nutella and four slices of bread he gets for his breakfast is called "Cocoa Puff." It’s American. He first puts butter on the four slices of bread his mom cuts every morning before he leaves for school.

He first puts butter on the four slices of bread his mom cuts every morning before he leaves for school .

There is the school bus which takes him to go to his high school. The high school he is going to is called "Lycee Leopold Senghor". Radouane loves sport. He works well in all subjects because he is studious. He wears a uniform consisting of a khaki top with khaki pants and sneakers.

Every afternoon, he plays basketball. He plays with some of his friends who are on the same team as him and some of his friends who are in his class. His trainer is called Mr. Abdoulaye Diop.

He gives him basketball lessons every night before he leaves home and when they finish his classes.

The boys also play with the girls on the same team. They only wear a jersey when there are basketball games.

Mr. Diop was a basketball player in Senegal. He was not a well-known player in Senegal. He plays basketball and in four years of experience.

He has a university education or sports.

The school where Radouane goes is called "Léopold Sedar Senghor. This school offers lessons in Wolof. Wolof is the most widely spoken mother tongue in Senegal. There are other languages ​​the Senegalese speak other than Wolof. For example, math lessons are offered in Wolof. For example, math lessons are offered in Wolof. There are also courses offered in French. Most Senegalese do not speak French well.

They speak Wolof.

Dakar is one of the most expensive cities in Senegal. When Radouane comes home from school, he goes home and takes a shower. After showering, he hydrates and wears his uniform, which is in khaki. Radouane is black, slender, and has short hair. Every night when he comes home and takes a shower, dresses, hydrates he wears his jeans pants with a t-shirt and tennis shoes.

He goes outside and buys the food that this Senegalese woman sells outside. These are spring rolls with fried onions. He buys two of this. It is his snack that he takes at four o'clock. His mom gives him money.

I am entitled to 1500 FCFA every week. His mother, Madame Mouna, cooks typical Senegalese dishes. The typical Senegalese dishes that she cooks are chicken or yassa fish, tieboudienne of mafe fish or chicken or beef, cabri au cubo and sweet potato.

The Senegalese also make bissap juice which is made from hibiscus. They put mint in their bissap juice.

The yassa that the Senegalese cook is also made with fish. They make peanut butter chicken. They cook the smoked fish mafe and the meat mafe. The chicken that Madame Momar loves and that her son loves is the Tchieboudienne. Tchieboudienne is also called fat rice in Cote-d'Ivoire. It is called in other Central African countries such as Cameroon "Jollof fried rice. "

This dish is made for four people. Madame Mouna sometimes prepares it and keeps the rest if there is any left. Preparation time is thirty minutes. The ingredients needed for this dish are three cups of rice (fragrant or broken rice), four large pieces of fish, (your choice or request), three fresh tomatoes mashed, three tablespoons of tomato paste, a bunch of crushed parsley, a large carrot, peeled, and cut into medium pieces, two potatoes and other ingredients more ...

To taste it, typical Senegalese snacks are: Senegalese savory donuts, sweet soufflé donuts, fish pastels to accompany tomato sauce made from onions, quiches, Senegalese gboflotos.

Senegal has a culture a little bit similar to the Ivory Coast. The Senegalese and the Ivorians are neighbors. There are Ivorians who come to Senegal to live there. And in Côte-D’ivoire, there are Ivorians who prepare chicken yassa.

Today Radouane's mother prepared thieboudienne for dinner with fish and carrots. For dessert there is bissap.

In the Mouna family, members of Madame Momar's family come every weekend to spend the weekends with her and her son.

So Madame Momar cooks food and puts it in a large dish so that all the people eat from the same dish. Even though she is a very well off woman, she prefers that on weekends everyone eats from the same dish.

When she is with her son they eat on a separate plate. For dessert, there are yoghurt pots, with Yoplait strawberries. Radouane goes about his daily routine.

. After eating, cleaning his table, and washing his plate, and putting it in the dishwasher, he goes to his room and does his homework.

He is in the third grade and revises for the patent. This is the patent in the Senegalese system. He works and after that he goes to the living room and watches TV. He likes shows that are He likes shows that are on television. He watches the Afro basketball games he watches on his Senegalese channel. His favorite sport is basketball. Radouane sometimes wonders how his father could have disappeared. He doesn't know how his father came to disappear. He doesn't know how his father came to disappear. He doesn't know how the sudden disappearance of his father went. He's not that angry, but he doesn't know why his mom is hiding things from him

why his mom is hiding things about his dad.

He's really sure his dad is still wanting since his mom tells him he's gone so that means he's still wanting.

Radouane finds his third grade easy. He doesn't find it difficult because he did well in fourth grade.

Anything he gets given in the third grade is pretty much a reminder that he was given in the fourth grade. That's why he got good grades.

At recess, Radouane eats the food his mother made at home. This is his snack what Radouane likes to eat most of the time, as snack are fish pastels. His mother gives him an extra bag of bissap to eat them with the fish pastels. Radouane spends time with his friends. They are chatting together and talking about the white card exercises they are going to have.

Radouane is thirteen years old. He skipped two classes. He skipped his first CP class and his 5th grade. He took IQ classes to attend the school he is currently attending. He is a brilliant student.

He has a girlfriend. Her name is Safietou. Radouane met him when they were playing basketball. He found her attractive. This is how they fell in love.

He loves this girl. He calls her "woman" for fun. He loves the way she dresses, the way she does her hair. He loves the shoes she wears. She's a really trendy girl.

She enjoys doing the weaving most of the time. Her mom gives her money to go to the barber shop and do her hair. She keeps her weaving for two months and remakes it together.

When she comes to high school, she wears a white colored uniform at the top and a blue skirt at the bottom. It is the same uniform as that of the Ivorians. Moreover, it is the Ivorians who invented the color of this uniform.

When she finishes all of her classes, she changes her uniforms. She is wearing her outfit that she wants to wear. She has nice clothes.

Madame Momar knows that her son has a girlfriend. Safietou's parents. often also know that Radouane is the boyfriend of the family. They got to know his family when there was Easter at school and all parents were invited.

Sometimes Radouane's mother comes to visit the Diarra family and sometimes the Diarra family comes to visit the Momar family. The two families prepare different dishes. Madame Diarra, Safietou's mother likes to cook yassa and add green olives in it to decorate. She loves to cook sweet potato. Madame Momar likes to cook beef mafé, and thieboudienne.

Radouane has been in company with Safietou for a year and a half. He really loves her because she is an honest, smart, clean, beautiful and virgin woman.

He has never paid for her to see a gynecologist but he knows that Safietou is still a virgin. They don't meet every day. They meet on occasion. Safietou knows her boyfriend's secrets and he knows his secrets too. She knows her father is missing and he doesn't know where he is.

And he knows that Safietou has never had boyfriends before, and that she has lost her sister.

Radouane talks most of the time to Safietou and tells him how he misses his father. He has not seen his father since he was born. Since he was born, he has never known his father. And her mom only told her that her dad is missing. Saphietou also tells Radouane how he misses his dead sister. So if he heard from his mother that his father is missing, it means that his father is still wanting.

But it's very difficult to find his father. Radouane also loves Safietou because of the Senegalese dishes she cooks. She is a good cook. When they finish E.P.S. together and leave high school, she gives him a taste of the appetizers she cooks before coming to school. She puts them in a box that keeps the food warm. This box is made of plastic and can withstand heat.

Radouane enjoys spending time with his girlfriend but he doesn't spend all the time with his girlfriend. It's every night when they play basketball that they see each other at the end of class when they finish changing in the locker room. Patent exams are coming. Safietou is in fifth grade. Radouane is happy. He had good grades in all the subjects he took.

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Sandra Bongjoh

Hi,

I am Sandra Bongjoh. I am an author. I currently live in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. I write stories for both children and adults. I also write novels on other topics such as politics books, cookery .

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