This Senegalese Life

I've been having cell phone network connection problems (or no  reseau , as they say here) off and on for a few weeks. It's been b...

Until just a few years ago the Kédougou was just a somewhat forgotten Department within the larger Region of Tambacounda. Now Kédougou has...

I wear things here that I just wouldn't wear in America, (unless I was at summer camp , where I once wore a vividly teal full-body rain...

I’ve been working in my hut the last few afternoons, doing prep work for a latrine project and typing stuff up. I don’t usually let little ...

...about heading back to village today. This morning, a little after 8:00 am, I biked over to the Kédougou garage (a big dirt parking lot he...

Awhile back I was telling someone how cute Saliou, their little boy, is and they exclaimed "You should marry him You think he's pre...

So, last week when we got on the Niokolo bus from Kédougou to Dakar, a very nice man sitting in the row behind us handed over these disposab...

I know that "Ramadan food" might sound like an oxymoron, but there is a lot of eating involved in celebrating  Ramadan . First, th...

There are many  laterite  roads in my region, and when you ride in a Niokolo safari car (or truck or bike or cart) you get coated in a thick...

A few weeks ago I was listening to a podcast about a lady who wrote a book about Obama's mom, and it occurred to me that I was about to ...

I feel like my camera has a hidden Funhouse Mirror setting; last time I posted a photo of the Sal émata castle it looked like a mini-golf pr...

This is the view of the main cooking/eating/lounging area of the Souaré compound. My hut is off to the right. I spend a lot of time sitting ...

There is a very small, very thin, very pregnant orange tabby cat that lives around the Training Center. She's always coming in to loll a...