Who is Marie in Dark Child?

Marie is the most beautiful girl in Conakry, a half-white girl with waist-length hair that all the boys admire. She likes Laye and has plenty of opportunity to see him because her father is a close friend of Laye's uncle. Marie attends a girls' high school and spends her Sundays at Uncle Mamadou's house, talking and dancing with Laye. When Laye leaves for Paris, she goes to the airport with him and cries, causing Laye to feel heartbroken at his separation from her.