While I was away in Thiès and Saraya last month, my youngest host mom, Kade, had her third baby. I knew she was pregnant
but hadn't realized that she was that far along, and was disappointed that I
missed the baptism. Of course, I still brought some baby gifts over to her hut - a soft blanket,
some fancy soap, a pretty new shirt, and a baby outfit in a little purple bag –
and she told me that she’d wanted to name the baby after my mother in America,
but when she was visiting everyone just called her “Neene Adama,” literally
“Adama’s mom,” and so no one was completely sure how to pronounce or write her
actual name, so they named the baby Fatoumata Bineta instead. Maybe next time,
though, if she has another daughter.
(Father Sadat and big sister Diabou; new baby girl Fatoumata Bineta; mother Kade)
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