Book "SCAR"

Edged with large skirts with bright colors, hair carefully braided, the women of west Africa adorn the alleys of their villages, their laughter crystalline. They lead in their wake chaloupant, small girls with big black eyes clinging to the bucket of water that they carry on the head. Straight as the young shoots of millet, the small know that their precious liquid is a gift of the spirits who protect the village. As they know that wont be part of a world of griots singing wonderful, blacksmiths sacred and the peasants, the servants of the earth.

But their eyes does not show, this is the secret to the biggest appointment of initiation of their young lives. Because it remains in their soul as a scar! The one who was drawn forever into their body one morning at the bottom of a box. Day of birth ritual to the community of the village women. Scar, this is the story of Bagnina, the little girl that <must> be circumcised to become a woman, as is the custom. It is also the tearing of its big brother, Karamogo, a young high school student from burkina-faso shared between custom and modernity, determined that one day his country will return the princesses of which he is unaware