Jibraan's Search for Gold

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Far into one of Africa’s red clay fields, which if measured, won’t be less than the size of 4 to 5 soccer pitches. Jibraan, tries to extract gold, by digging deep into the surface of a gold mining site. The site has long been banned by the village’s local government, due to the spread of various sicknesses, caused by the gold extraction activity itself. Various warnings have been given to the villagers who attempt to dig for gold, but even though, aware of the circumstances, Jibraan’s persistence to continue digging is imperative. He has nothing left anymore; neither does his wife and his 2 children. He wishes to abandon poverty and live a more luxurious life with his family, and set them free from the difficulties of a stringent African village life.

As he digs deeper underneath, seeking inhumanly with great hunger for more and more gold, he hears a voice, the gaggles of villagers from a very far distance. Jibraan, with confidence, is assuming that they are standing right outside the metallic fence surrounding the site, and that they would dare to access it. Surprised the villager...

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