This Senegalese Life

There is a television show called New Girl , and on that show they play a game called True American . The Peace Corps Volunteers of Kédou...

So, maybe you thought that just because I'm single and childless I wouldn't be churning out look-at-this-baby posts, but I'm he...

The wall of the Kedougou Regional House's kitchen hut features a large calendar, painted with blackboard paint and outlined in white ho...

Diabou is now the second-youngest kid on my compound. She’s taciturn, obstinate, and small for her age. She doesn't like new people and...

The mangoes in Salémata aren’t quite ripe yet, but last week Katie O. and I walked over to the Bassari village of Ethiolo, where the mangoe...

The January 2013 West Africa Invitational Softball Tournament in Dakar was a great success for the Kédougou team. Not so much for winnin...

The kids on our compound are really adorable. Much more so than most kids. They do have their disgusting moments - the runny noses, the pee...

After our mom flew back to the U.S. my brother and I went to Cape Verde, a little Portuguese-and-Creole-speaking island nation off the coas...