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In this excerpt from Cheikh Nouh’s novel Adabai, we're introduced to the history and myths of the eponymous Mauritanian village. 

Adabai In this excerpt from Cheikh Nouh’s novel Adabai, were introduced to the history and myths of the eponymous Mauritanian village.  Musa says that Ibrika founded the village of Adabai twenty years after “the year of Ja’bara’s death,” which was an important year in Adabai’s history. Ja’bara was a female slave from the nearby village. “Ja’bara had confided to some of the women while drawing water from the well that she was carrying the child of master Hammada, a son of the...