A book that speaks to us! (By Soro DIOP)

I did not read President Macky Sall's book, "Senegal at Heart." I devoured it. I had studious nights with his book. And I particularly liked this unprecedented exercise in the history of our political life where a President of the Republic, "at the end of his mandate and on the eve of a presidential election," is engaged in a kind of memory duty and delivers the outlines of his life but also his record of the rest very eloquent in terms of achievements, in all areas.
If President Macky Sall has "dared", it is because his political audacity draws its foundations in the correctness of his fight, in the power of his convictions and the solidity of his ambition for Senegal. It is also because it is part of a great determination and a resolute sense of commitment both in studies, in professional life and in political activity. It is necessary to love his family, his country and his people!
As we walk through the book, walk through the luminous meanderings of the sequences described and the incidents told, President Macky Sall installs us and, with hindsight, reinstates us with modest conditions, in a a sort of rediscovery of our virtuous rurality made of refusal of a future heckled by existential accidents, and of obstacles which, instead of inhibiting, stimulate, "galvanize, carry forward".
It puts us back into our past, our present and our challenges. In this respect, the work of President Macky Sall has a didactic taste that infuses the need to overcome fatality by saying that a modest origin is also an asset. He summons the wisdom of endurance for the one who must have as possible horizon all the possibilities on the horizon.
There are many children from the depths of Senegal, Fouta, Sine, Saloum, Senegal Oriental, Cayor, Baol, Ndiambour and Casamance, who could sign this book. This book only talks about President Macky Sall. He speaks to us, he speaks to them! Many of them taste its autobiographical flavor. To find and find the mirror of their anguished childhood of sons of modest families, the sense of premature responsibilities of their adolescence away from the warmth of parents, utopias enthusiastic in student activism and later a professional life dedicated to a commitment to the right causes.
So there is all this in this "childhood that builds us", in "the child to devour", in politics related to "an inheritance and commitment", in "the first weapons", in "The long march" . In short, in that which forges and strengthens an ambition pegged to a courage to serve his people. At the same time autobiography, manual of political leadership, book-balance and perspectives, this book is somewhere "a native land", an ode to patriotic ambition. A human symphony, quite simply.
Every episode told by President Macky Sall is here a life lesson. Lives in his life. His life in lives. Upset as the effect of President Wade's departure at the time on the origins of the family of his 2012 electoral hangman. Stupefying as the memory of the painful infidelities during the "fall". Dopante as in Christ who, faced with the suffering endured, replies, with a smile: "do not be afraid!" And then, Confucius teaches us that "the greatest glory is not to never fall, but to pick up with each fall. "
DESPITE HEAVY HERITAGE …
It is free from all paralyzing fear and armed with a courageous ambition that President Macky Sall has undertaken, through Yoonu Yokkuté, to put Senegal on "the path of true development", in a context where, nevertheless, he bore on his shoulders the heavy burden of a financial debt of 3014 billion of which 700 billion in the name of the domestic debt. And to say that some who were in business under President Wade allow themselves the audacity to talk to us today about cash stress.
Who dares, without political blindness or partisan bad faith, to ignore the immense sacrifices and efforts made to avert the dramatic announcement, by his predecessor President Wade, of the interruption of the payment of the salaries of the Public Service? Macky Sall inherited a Senegal financially on the edge of the precipice, with a famine that haunted the rural world, where Abdoulaye Wade had, in his time and by his own admission, found the state coffers full after the departure of Abdou Diouf.
The reader discovers a man, a kind of synthesis of Senegal, who knows and who has traveled the real country, far "beautiful speeches in Dakar and some major cities of the country." Who, despite the enormous obstacles, has built a vision based on the daily experience of peasants, pastoralists, fishermen, women and young people in rural areas, their difficulties but also their expectations. He translated them into a strong ambition: the Emerging Senegal Plan. A Plan that is based on "equity and inclusion programs (which) have left millions of Senegalese out of total destitution". Without oil or gas, please!
Precisely, with the future exploitation and management of oil and gas, the President of the Republic, a geologist by training, (what he says in his book on pages 49 to 57 is very clear), a lucid vision tied to its undeniable expertise in the field. A vision that divorces with the fantasized perception of the preachers of the curse.
The pages devoted to the issues of development, reforms, freedoms, the "Islam of lights", the "United States of Africa" ​​deserve to be "consumed without moderation" because they contain nuggets of a powerful leadership to inculcate in "this generation that faces the new challenges of the continent …".
This book is further proof that the man who is dedicated to the emergence of Senegal, and who will undoubtedly devote himself to it, through actions and not by words, deserves support. By the vast majority of Senegalese who, like President Macky Sall, carry "Senegal to the heart".