asked to step down by Obama, this pro-Wade graffiti was ironically, and perhaps unknowingly, scrawled on the outside wall of the American School in Dakar (foto courtesy Ella)
Praying for Politics February 27th 2012 While it is with moderate lightness in Senegal that i can throw around salaam aleikums, and with tempered righteousness that I can accept being banned from the inside of most mosques - it is with absolute sincerity that I nodded in accordance with the wish of many of my friends upon leaving:
Please. Pray for Senegal.
And every non-believer cell of me is…
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Africa » Senegal » Cape Verde Peninsula » Dakar 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
making a documentary about the role of musicians in the crisis in Mali and the Sahel:
www.sahelcalling.com
facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sahel-Calling-A-catalyst-film-for-action-in-Mali-the-Sahel/323785747716676?ref=hl
would like to unite some of us bloggers around this!
also figuring out how to put my pen to good use...
and figuring out how to live in berlin and dakar at the same time, with a whiff of brooklyn...
and trying to slow the pace at which my world is webbed...let us not forget how close we are...tug tug.
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