Tag Archives: sokone
The almost-final countdown
I take back most of everything I said about the Dakar-is-like-DC crowd. I left my house on Friday morning, lugging my bags across sand roads until I saw a horse-taxi that I hailed down to take me to a random … Continue reading
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Meals without wheels
A few weeks ago, during the presession, we took a field trip to the island of Ngor, off the northwest tip of Dakar, to conduct interviews with strangers on the beach on the subject of polygamy. We were informed that … Continue reading
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To Gambia and back
I guess it should technically be To The Gambia and back. Anyway, as you can tell from the title, I am in fact back, and now have a horribly long blog post to show for it. The 20 other kids … Continue reading
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A couple more things
I promised that the next post would be the first in my series of descriptions of life in Dakar. I lied. I wanted to post quickly to let people know that for those clamoring for pictures (whoever you may be), … Continue reading
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Camp Sokone
As I briefly alluded to, we spent last week participating in the “Vacances Citoyennes” run by the Cheikh Anta Diop University (also known as UCAD, and Senegal’s biggest university). Translated pretty literally, “Vacances Citoyennes” means “Citizen Vacations.” And although there … Continue reading
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