Sadio is a young African who is passionate about football. With his teammates in the village, he will play a decisive match to win the right to continue growing in the forest of angels. A comic strip about the Senegalese football star Sadio Mané.
Sadio lives in the village of Nianthio in Senegal. After his father's death, his education is entrusted to one of his uncles who considers that football is a dead end. But Sadio does not listen and regularly goes to the Bois des Anges to play matches with his friends.
There, the boy is always chosen last in the team composition and as goalkeeper, which he does not appreciate and causes an argument with his captain, Momo.
It is Sadio's sense of values, determination and his love of football that will allow the two boys to reconcile and face together the rival team from the village of Cere-Neex and win a daring bet: to win the right to enter as they please, into the forest of angels that separates the two rival villages.
Sadio will finally find the place he deserves within his team, encouraged by the good advice of his friend Bineta and he will be spotted by a coach.
This beautifully illustrated comic strip traces, in broad outline, a part of the history of the famous Senegalese player Sadio Mané.
The book is available on the FNAC, Cultura and Amazon websites.
Title: Sadio, the forest of angels
Author and illustrator: Seydina Issa Sow
Publisher: Saaraba Editions
Collection: New pocket
Rédacteur : Laurence MARIANNE-MELGARD
