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An elderly Wolof patriarch introduces his new wife to his family in a traditional Gambian village surrounded by thatched homes.

Burr Njai Takes Another Wife

In the fertile lands of the Wolof people, where millet fields stretched toward the horizon and the evening breeze carried songs from village courtyards, there lived an elderly man named Burr Njai. He was respected by everyone who knew him. Years of honest labor had filled his granaries, and his wisdom had settled many disputes among neighbors. Burr Njai had

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