Wendou Bosséabé, Dec 26 (APS) – Diarry Sow, twice elected “best student in Senegal” in 2018 and 2019, returned to her voluntary disappearance in 2021, while she was enrolled in preparatory classes for Grandes Ecoles in France, evoking racism, loneliness, lack of support and preparation for his new life.
“There was a fairly complicated period for me. A moment when I was too questioning, because, sometimes, we are thrown into a society that is not ours without support, for which we are not prepared,” she said. told in an interview with journalists.
Currently staying in Wendou Bosséabé, in the Matam region (north), Diarry Sow explained that by leaving Senegal to continue her studies in France, she had not benefited from good preparation, which “had to be mental and psychological”.
When she arrived in France, “a different country” to continue her studies, she said she realized a “cultural gap” with Senegal, not to mention that “financially, things started to get complicated”.
“There were also problems of racism which mean that, even if you succeed, you are not taken seriously,” explained the former resident of the Diourbel high school of scientific excellence between 2016 and 2019, adding that this situation was the source of a “shock” which pushed her to refocus on herself.
She also cited the harshness and high cost of life, which made her take “a break” to think about her future and her projects.
Diarry Sow says she has since returned to the normal course of her life, continuing her engineering studies at the Ecole Centrale de Paris, where she aims to graduate with a degree in Data Scientist and Artificial Intelligence.
She says that her life has changed, thanks to the Senegalese businessman Harouna Dia, about whom she aims to write a book, so that the Senegalese know him better.
“I want people to discover the visionary side of this man. There are many things to take from him, his journey, his generosity, his faith in Africa,” she said.
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