Dakar, January 6 (APS) – The work of computer engineer, Khady Ndiaye, entitled “Addicted to books? A challenge!!! » and published by “Editions Edisal”, is intended to be an educational tool intended to raise the level of students, specifies its author.
»This book helps to raise the level of students so that they become more efficient and also have much more self-confidence, [soient] leaders of tomorrow, patriots and excellent citizens,” wrote Khady Ndiaye in the foreword.
The author currently works at Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (RTS). She believes that in the current context where social networks, telephones, tablets monopolize our time, there is “a need to reconnect with reading and general culture is essential”.
”We intend to encourage people to read more, to have language skills and to master public speaking,” she emphasizes.
The work, divided into seven parts, essentially tests readers’ general knowledge with various questions relating to general culture, citizenship and personal development and public speaking.
The author begins with general questions on literature, physics, cosmology, etc., to encourage learners to test their knowledge.
For example, one of these quizzes on the writer Aminata Sow Fall is as follows: ”I am a famous Senegalese novelist, I wrote a novel called +The strike of the beaten+, Who am I? ”
Another example of a quiz: ”Character created by the writer James Barrie, I first appear in a novel entitled +The Little White Bird in 1902. Living in the land of nowhere, friend of Wendy but enemy of the captain hook. Who am I?”.
The answers to these different questions can be found on page 69 et seq. of this 72-page book.
Apart from a few typos, such as the answer to the quiz on the first president of the National Assembly of Senegal, where it is written ”Lamine curée” instead of Lamine Guèye, the book is very practical for parents wishing to test the general culture and language level of their children, or for teenagers wanting to play budding geniuses.
The publication allows, among other things, the child to better understand the symbols of the Republic, the different institutions and the national anthem.
Khady Ndiaye, a graduate of the Blaise Diagne high school in Dakar where she obtained her scientific Baccalaureate, is passionate about books and the perpetual search for knowledge, convinced that knowledge is in books.
She promises to release other works of the same genre for early childhood and adults.
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