Moving in

Arrival in Dakar

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August 22nd 2005
Dear people who know me, I am spending the next 4 months in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa. I’m studying abroad through Emory, and I’ll be taking classes and living with a host family. Hopefully I will also be doing an internship. If you got an email sending you to this page to read this, that means I’ve put you on my mailing list to receive an email every time I update this page. I h ... read more

Africa » Senegal » Cape Verde Peninsula » Dakar

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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