The Beautiful Game 5 7
From 6 o’clock each morning until midday, both young
and older men and women work in the rice fields. In the
afternoons there is always ‘the games’ to look forward to
with some 200 teams taking part throughout the region.
Power
Unique to Senegal is the fact that 50% of spectators at
these football matches are women. They chant eroticallycharged songs, which have often been composed in the
rice fields that morning. This phenomenon guarantees
not only a simmering atmosphere but the very survival
of a people and a way of life.