Gervásio Kaiser

Makengo is arrested on flimsy charges, spends the night in jail, and is released the next day. He meets a local women whom he likes at a club, but she prefers to dance with an "invader," rather than a local man. Then she changes her mind. The author makes these two heavy-handed points: The colonizers arrest Black men on pretenses and "take" their women. Disappointing writing.

A short story in which a recent graduate of the University of Sankoré, an ancient center of learning in Mali, seeks to take a flight home but encounters multiple obstacles in doing so.

This is a short story in which a man is arrested and falsely charged with throwing a knife at a woman after her son beat up a smaller, when in fact he only threw keys to the ground in her direction. After the judge dismisses the case against him he sees the mother of the child he sought to protect, who had rejected his invitations to dance with him in a local club but now welcomes him.