"A dramatic lesson for our generation of miscreants so disrespectful of the creation," Sangu said, amazed. Huge funerals for the death of a horse The little boy was marked forever by the three-day mourning ceremony, as the tradition advised for demise male individuals. This showed how villagers had been attached to their pets, considered to be living with their own souls and treated as such. Cats of the Dawn narrates stories of real life from a little boy's eyes and mind. Sangu grew up, since then. He survived dangerous paths in his country combed by organized thugs who behave like cats of the dawn in search of new preys. Sangu is a surviving witness of the evolving situation in his homeland marred with unbearable suffering, poverty, civil unrest, disillusion, fear and want. His testimony appears very representative of what traveling throughout the African continent could help to understand and translate, as a witness of the suffering, but nonetheless candidly joyful and hopeful people, sometimes uprooted, often unprotected civilian populations. The good news is Cats of the Dawn reveals good people do exist. Among them, Sangu 's own mother, a strong female leader. Uniting efforts to help overcoming dire humanitarian situations is their motto. The objective is about addressing huge basic social needs gap in remote areas of our great Mother Planet. This new book in English about Chad could prove helpful in filling possible knowledge gap on the French speaking hinterlands of the African continent.