Fiction
- Sirah, spiritual leader character in the Star Trek universe, introduced in the episode "The Storyteller" of Deep Space Nine
Sira is a village located in the rural commune of Mafoune (District of Tominian, Segou Region) in Republic of Mali. The village has been founded in about 1900 by a people coming from Mande led by Douba KEITA. When coming to the current location, they made a stop at about 15 km in the North-West and created a settlement called Toumanikuy where they encountered difficulties with the neighbouring villages due to their Manding origin and culture. Following these difficulties, they then decided to leave (on advice of their griot who warned them that the neighbouring village called Touba was getting ready to attack them the following day. They left for Mougnini for just few couple of months before coming to the current site which they decided to call Sira for it was previously their road to current Burkina Faso. Sira means road in Bambara.
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“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
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