Overview
Sometimes distasteful practices are most effectively criticized with a good sense of humor. Meet Modou, a young, courageous and determined talibé - a pupil in a Koranic school - who manages to escape from his corrupt and abusive teacher to find a better life in contemporary Dakar, Senegal.
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Amadou ThiorWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 8, 2002
- Original language
- Wolof
- Countries
- Senegal
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