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Another picture from the street market in downtown Dakar  
   

Another picture from the street market in downtown Dakar

You can kind of see two men wearing the traditional bou-bou there on the left, but not very well. I lost all my photos of Malick and Baye Fall wearing theirs. At first upon arriving here it was strange, seeing all these men wearing floor-length shirts with pointy shoes. But it's actually very beautiful. It's totally normal to see young men wearing regular Western clothes one day, and then a bou-bou the next day. You can see better how it looks in the video.
The high points...and the low points

April 10th 2008
One day I was invited to a local family's house in Medina—which is like the main banlieue in Dakar—for lunch. The woman of the house is the first of three wives, and runs a three-story house full of kids and grandkids. After greeting countless relatives one of her daughters took me into her room to dress me in proper Senegalese garb so I wouldn’t look like quite such a toubabe (I was wea ... read more
Africa » Senegal » Cape Verde Peninsula » Dakar

Senegalese Flag Independent from France in 1960, Senegal joined with The Gambia to form the nominal confederation of Senegambia in 1982. However, the envisaged integration of the two countries was never carried out, and the union was dissolved in 1989. Despite peace... ... read more
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