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- In the 1960s, just after Mali gains its independence, a young socialist meets and falls in love with a woman trying to escape an arranged marriage.
- Salma, a veiled Muslim girl, dreams of being a Kora player, but in her tradition, a woman can't play this instrument. One day, while recovering the Kora, which is in repair, for her father in a monastery, a monk gives her the opportunity to play the Kora.
- The Kivu in Democrat Republic of Congo, a lake in one of the most unstable region in the world, is portrayed by the stories of local fishermen. They live on, and thanks to the lake, they know all his secrets. They tell them, drifting with the flow on their dugout or during a late evening gathering along the lake's banks: two warring countries - Rwanda and DRC, the rumor of a killer fish, a gigantic reserve of methane about to blow up, or old woman's fabulous memories - So many stories about life and death, fishing and legacy, which form a tales' collection and reveals the secret identity of an amazing place.
- In Kisangani, a group of high-school students who cannot afford to pay the teachers' "bonuses" organized themselves to prepare the State exam together.
- June 1940. Radio Dakar announces France's defeat. The colonial population pledges allegiance to Pétain, an act that will have serious repercussions. Fari, Catherine and Hélène set up a resistance network. The fight for Senegal's independence begins, finally ending in 1960 with the election of Senghor as president.
- Fari and Alain welcome their second baby. The colony thrills to the achievements of Théo Dia, African boxing champion, before the first Africans begin to mobilise and demand equal rights with the white population. Sent to Paris, Fari meets Pompidou and Senghor.
- In her articles, Fari denounces the "Indigénat", and by doing so stirs up a veritable controversy. Her marriage to Alain de Bourbon continues to be considered scandalous. Catherine, helped by the Corsican network, continues her financial activities. A first rebellion erupts, rapidly brought to an end by Alain de Bourbon.
- 1927: Jean Mermoz lands in Dakar, a veritable boom town. The event is covered by Fari, a 20 year-old Senegalese journalist, the only woman in the "Jour du Dakar" editorial team. In love with Alain de Bourbon, officer with the Senegalese Tirailleurs, their relationship scandalises the colony.