SAINT MONSIEUR BALY

by WILLIAMS SASSINE

Publisher

PRESENCE AFRICAIN

Description

A tragi-comic story of an old teacher who, passionately devoted to his vocation as a pedagogue, decides at the fatal moment of his retirement to invest his savings in the establishment of a school for all the disinherited elements of the society. Assisted by an old blind man and by a leper who har been repudiated by everyone, Monsieur Baly thus undertakes the construction of a "poor people's school" - a project thar encounters many obstacles but ultimately triumphs due to the faith and courage of its founder