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Your son Ibrahima is twelve years old. He's first in his class. His teacher says he has the potential to integrate the region's high school of excellence. But your father — his grandfather, patriarch of the family — demands that Ibrahima join the Touba daara for three years of exclusive Koranic teaching. It's been a tradition in your family for four generations.
Ibrahima himself doesn't know what he wants. He obeys. He loves school but he respects his grandfather as a wise man.
If you send Ibrahima to the daara, you honor tradition and offer him a deep spiritual formation. But he will lose three decisive school years, and his level may be irreparably compromised.
If you oppose it, you break a family promise, you face your father, and you cut Ibrahima off from his religious roots.
Who decides the future of Ibrahima?
- Respect tradition : send Ibrahima to the daara, honor the grandfather, and hope for a possible reconciliation with the modern school after.
- Protecting education : refuse, assume the family conflict, and bet on the educational future of Ibrahima.
