‘Let me listen in the smoky hut where there comes a glimpse of the friendly spirits
My head on your bosom warm like a dang smoking from the fire’.
The dang in the verse from ‘Nuit de Sine’ refers to
- wheels of spining cotton into yarn
- sea weed, full of salt
- a wolof word for granulated flour meal, known also as couscous
- a Northern Uganda local brew, usually strong and meant for men
-
a kind of narcotic or stimulant.
