Les nanas

(The chicks.) This is Adia. Before I left she gave me a pair of custom-made sandals beaded with the colors of the Senegalese flag that she had made for me like a week before my departure!!

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

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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