Yau da Dakar Abin da kowa ya sani ke nan: tseren da ke da kasafin kuɗi na dala miliyan, wanda miliyoyin mutane ke biye da shi a duniya, kuma manyan magina na duniya suna jayayya. Amma ba koyaushe haka yake ba.
Akwai lokacin da Dakar ya kasance daidai da "kaɗa don kasada, ƙalubale don ƙalubale" . A gaskiya ma, abubuwan da ke cikin asalinta ba za su iya zama alamar wannan falsafar ba.
Labarin Dakar ya fara ne a cikin 1977, lokacin da Thierry Sabine (a cikin hoton da aka haskaka), wanda ya kafa Dakar, ya ɓace a tsakiyar hamadar Sahara yayin wani gangami. Shi ne kawai, babur dinsa da kuma katon tekun yashi. Tun a wancan lokacin babu ingantattun hanyoyin taimako - GPS, wayoyin hannu? To sai… - ba zai yiwu a taimaka Thierry Sabine ba. Bayan kwanaki uku, ƙungiyoyin da abin ya shafa sun ƙare binciken. Yiwuwar tsira? Kusan nil.
"Paris-Dakar kalubale ne ga masu tafiya. Mafarki ga wadanda suka zauna"
Duk da cewa har yanzu yana raye, bayan kwanaki da yawa a cikin hamada, gajiya, rashin ruwa da rashin numfashi sun kama Thierry Sabine. Wani abin ban mamaki shi ne, a daidai lokacin da Sabine ke shirin kashe rayuwarta ne wani jirgi ya hango shi ya ceci rayuwarsa.
Duk da wannan rashin sa'a - ya isa ga mafi yawan mutanen da ba za su taɓa son sake kafa ƙafa a cikin hamada ba - Bafaranshen ya ƙaunaci hamada da ƙalubalensa. Sha'awar da ta tsaya ga rayuwa. An murmure daga wannan gogewar “kusa da mutuwa”, Thierry Sabine ya yi imanin cewa dole ne a sami ƙarin mutane a duniya waɗanda ke son ketare hamada daga Turai, zuwa: (1) bincika iyakokin jikin mutum da injuna; kuma (biyu) ji motsin tseren da ya haɗu da sauri, kewayawa, iyawa, ƙarfin hali da azama.
Yayi daidai. Akwai.
THE 26 ga Disamba, 1978 , fara na farko Paris-Dakar tawagar da 182 mahalarta. An zaɓi wurin farawa da hannu: Hasumiyar Eiffel, alamar ƙarfin halin ɗan adam. Daga cikin mahalarta 182, 69 ne kawai suka isa Dakar.
Tun daga wannan lokacin, Dakar ta bude kofofin hamada ga duniya baki daya, kuma a kullum tana kalubalantar iyakokin bil'adama, tana ciyar da mafi yawan ruhi. "Paris-Dakar kalubale ne ga masu tafiya. Mafarki ga wadanda suka zauna" In ji Thierry Sabine wata rana.
Duk da cewa birnin Dakar ya daina faruwa a Afirka (saboda rashin zaman lafiya a wasu yankuna na siyasa) kuma ba a nutsar da shi cikin sha'awar soyayya ta wasu lokuta, lamarin da ke ci gaba da zaburar da miliyoyin jama'a. Baya ga ɗimbin matukan jirgi na hukuma - waɗanda ke fafatawa a tseren tare da kowace hanya don cimma nasara - ga ɗaruruwan matukin jirgi masu zaman kansu balaguron ya kasance iri ɗaya kamar yadda yake a shekaru 38 da suka gabata: kai karshen.
