Salla is 88 years old. Cheikh Sow’s widow, she lives in the village of Keur Massar, Pink Lake Road, in the municipality of Pikine. The old woman has always been devoted to trade, from its origins in the city of St. Louis. Several times, married and widowed or divorced. Salla is the mother of activist Salif Sow, 53, an migrant who in 1992 managed to reach the coast of Tarifa, from Morocco in a boat.