Zodiac, Michelle, and their mom at a baptism

Senegalese women get decked out for baptisms, which happen a lot. Look at the women's clothes in the background. I went to this one, but I never saw the baby... It just seemed like a lot of dressed up women sitting around.

My fan

October 6th 2005
“Our fan is broken!” I announced with exasperation to my host parents. After a month of jerry-rigging the contraption, I was fed up. In an effort to reduce its erratic noisemaking, I had taken the machine apart four times, woken up in the middle of countless nights to shove various objects (shirts, shoes, books, markers) under the wobbly leg, made a nightly ritual of tying a pair of dirty p ... read more

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

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