Chapter 9 Summary

"Dakar - Mame Sofi" Narration describes how after the short confrontation between the women and the police, the women patrolled the streets of the neighborhood, and how Mame Sofi unsuccessfully tried to confront Ramatoulaye's brother, Mebigue. Meanwhile, N'Deye Touti tells Ramatoulaye and the other women of the compound that they had been foolish to confront the police who, she says, will return for them. As she is returning, Mame Sofi overhears hears the conversation and tells the women they will fight back. Police on horseback are heard, and Mame Sofi tells the women to prepare to fight them back with flaming torches. The police are scattered, but a stray flame accidentally ignites a small hut, which is quickly engulfed in flames that, just as quickly, spread up and down the street.

The next morning at N'Diayene, which escaped the fire intact, Beaugosse (who...