{"title":"Kabouna Keita","description":"\u003cp\u003eNascido em 1951, no Mali, Kabouna Keita vive em Essonne, França, com Marie e seus sete filhos. Titular de um diploma de Estudos Universitários Gerais em Ciências Sociais, é educador especializado dos quadros da Proteção Judiciária da Juventude (PJJ) e trabalha com delinquentes. No Mali, criou o Movimento de Jovens pela Educação e pela Cultura, associação reconhecida como de utilidade pública. A narrativa de sua vida foi escrita em colaboração com Fred Muller, jornalista.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"o-filho-presente","title":"The present son","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe moving story of the African boy who, at birth, was given as a gift and went on to become a respected educator of delinquents in Europe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e“I am a gift-child.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThis means my mother gave me as a gift to another woman. Not that I was adopted. There were no documents, no administrative declaration. My mother simply offered me to a woman who wasn't fortunate enough to have a child and was unhappy about it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThis woman's name was Boli. She was one of my mother's father's three co-wives. [...] This happened in 1951, in Kita, a village 150 kilometers from Bamako, Mali.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eKabouna Keita is not a child like other children. And when Boli falls ill, he has only one thought: to save the woman he considers his second mother. At five years old, he devises countless ways to earn money to buy her medicine; he starts by collecting cans of preserves, which he resells by weight, then glass bottles. Every day, the boy walks dozens of kilometers, carrying his bags.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Stubborn and courageous, he becomes a delivery boy, learns to read and write... and falls in love with America. At nineteen, Kabouna goes to New York and works odd jobs: washing dishes in Harlem, working as a seasonal worker in California... and returns to Mali five years later, with a nest egg and a thousand projects. He sets up his own business and marries Marie, the woman of his life. But he is once again overcome by the urge to travel. This time, he heads to France...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e An autobiographical account, \u003cem\u003eThe Present Son\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful testimony of love, courage and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175782203644,"sku":"9788528613353","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5ab8e2e5ee6f0ae22bd23432a92c4574.jpg?v=1778324690"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/kabouna-keita.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}