This Senegalese Life

There are a lot of huts in various states of disrepair around. In other parts of the country you'll see mostly apartment buildings...

My American name is LaRocha ("la-rock-a"), but my Senegalese name is Adama. I have a number of tokorabe  (people with my same na...

Transport is usually the worst and most unpleasant part of living in Senegal. Unless you're well-to-do and have your own car and driver...

After the  Health/EE Summit my friend  Leah  and I went up to Dakar and had a wonderful time visiting  Rachel  & Emily at their complete...

There used to be a big mirror in the Regional House shower, but someone knocked it off the wall and broke it. Last month our plastic house...

Bad news. This isn't actually my laptop, but you get the idea. Thanks to Senegal's wildly unreliable power grid and all the rec...

In no particular order, here are a few of the things I have learned so far: 1. I've been told that the giant, scorpion-looking spider ...

But I'm going to post some photos of my missing toenail anyway.