Touki
Subtitle: voyage à Dakar
By: Judith Quax ; texts, Vamba Sherif [and four others]
Publisher: Lecturis
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Eindhoven]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9789462263963
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Artistic Photography
Other titles: Voyage à Dakar
Description: In 'Voyage à Dakar', Judith Quax, together with her then four-year-old Dutch-Senegalese son Noah, travels in a Mercedes oldtimer against the migration flow from Amsterdam across the Sahara to Dakar in Senegal. Just as long as she was moving, on the road, in the sand-coloured, almost forty-year-old Mercedes she had got for a knock-down price from a second-hand car dealer in Amsterdam Noord, with her four-year-old son Noah beside her, almost like a guardian angel, hands on the wheel, eyes on the asphalt or dirt track, mountains in the distance, the Mercedes star leading the way like a compass, sparkling in the lucid light of the Sahara, sand and dust billowing in their wake, the changing landscape passing by, like in a film, but more real, more real than her 'old' life in Amsterdam seemed to her - just as long as they were driving, sometimes with a temporary passenger in the back, or even in the front next to her, Noah in the rear view mirror, hitchhikers on their way back to their family, home, finally, after so many years - just as long as they knew the final goal of their journey, Dakar in Senegal, where Noah's grandpa and grandma live, just as long as - TOUKI means Journey in Wolof (Senegalese language).
Notes: Title from cover.

Parallel texts in English and French.