Saturday, March 2, 2019

Revisiting Hotel Djenne Djenno...

                                                                               
 For anyone who visited my hotel in Djenne (and anyone else), this is a little film from the very last days of the hotel...
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 And last Sunday I had a lunch party here in Ladbroke Grove which included the Malian honorary Consul Mark Saade and his lovely wife Julia who were able to translate the Arabic tablet for me that I received from the Djenne Manuscript Library  at our ceremony in Bamako last December:


                                     The world is a deep sea and many people drown in it. 
                                    Make your ship fear God and reinforce it with faith.
                                    Let your trust be in God and you will be saved.

I wonder who chose those words from the Koran for me? Maybe my dear old friend Yelpha, the Imam of the Great Mosque of Djenne? 


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3 comments:

  1. Pascal et MoniqueMarch 3, 2019 at 11:55 AM

    Très émouvant, comme c'est triste... Ces derniers instants sont superbement rendus. Nous avons essuyé des larmes...

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  2. toubabMarch 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM

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  3. toubabMarch 3, 2019 at 2:34 PM

    N'est-ce pas? Elisabet Gustavsson, la relisatrice serait content de l'entendre!

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