Birago Diop

Affinities between Diop’s Vanity and Ecclesiastes

Affinities between Diop’s Vanity and Ecclesiastes

As the Preacher warns of the dreadful consequences of man’s arrogant disposition, the poet bemoans the rascality of his generation who ignore ancestral safe guards, preferring to tread on a destructive path. The psalmist, King David expresses a similar view about man