{"id":2746,"date":"2011-12-13T20:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sadunya.org\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:52:19","slug":"fatoumata-sy-the-doll-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadunya.com\/en\/fatoumata-sy-the-doll-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatoumata Sy, the doll maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pmeEI3FZs0Q?rel=0\" allow=\"accelerometer;  encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let me introduce you to&nbsp; <a title=\"Dakar Gor\u00e9e 1\/2 - YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/sadunyaProject#p\/a\/u\/1\/VQ_aI6uenpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fatoumata Sy<\/a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;Mom&#8217;s <em>tourondo<\/em><sup>(1)<\/sup> and our &#8220;real life&#8221; mom, because she&#8217;s the one who makes us, with <a title=\"The Ndiaye family\u2019s father\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sadunya.org\/?p=2744&amp;lang=en\">Ibrahima Niang<\/a>&#8216;s help. These two craftspeople team up to create Senegalese dolls.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dakar Gor\u00e9e 2\/2 - YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/sadunyaProject#p\/a\/u\/0\/-YC-kLOS22Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fatoumata Sy<\/a> lives and works on <a title=\"Goree Island - UNESCO\" href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goree island<\/a>, several kilometers off the coast from Dakar. This is also where SaDunya&#8217;s founders met her for the first time, when she was selling dolls in her little stall. We, the Ndiaye family dolls, had already taken shape in their heads, but they hadn&#8217;t found the right person to craft us. The quality of Fatoumata&#8217;s work, along with her generosity and kindness, won them over and, after their first meeting, they went back to her to ask her to create the characters they had dreamed up for SaDunya. That is how we were born.<br \/>\nFatoumata first cuts and sews our clothes, and then dresses us. Next, she attends to the finishing touches, such as grafting (adding) my hair to my head, doing Mamie&#8217;s braids \u2013 she braids at the speed of lightening \u2013 and setting the gourd on my mom&#8217;s head.<br \/>\nMy favorite part is when she combs and combs my hair after fastening it to my head, to make it very shiny and smooth, and make me beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(1)<\/sup> In Senegal, a child often takes the name of somebody close to the family, making him or her the child&#8217;s &#8220;tourondo&#8221; (namesake).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Abybatou\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sadunya.org\/?page_id=174&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Aby Ndiaye<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me introduce you to&nbsp; Fatoumata Sy,&nbsp;&nbsp;Mom&#8217;s tourondo(1) and our &#8220;real life&#8221; mom, because she&#8217;s the one who makes us, with Ibrahima Niang&#8216;s help. 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