This Senegalese Life

Ah, spring, that magical time in August when epic rain storms start up and seemingly overnight everything has turned a ridiculously vivid gr...

So, the kids who live on my compound love to write and color, but there's an almost complete lack of art supplies in Salémata, so they d...

Salémata is about 80 kilometers down a red dirt road from Kédougou; in a Peace Corps Land Rover it takes about two hours, but in a mini-bus ...

My birthday was over a month ago, but with all the power outs, flooded roads, and finicky cell phone reseau it's been hard to get onlin...

So, everything's been pretty good lately, except for the recent lack of internet access and our road being flooded on and off for most o...

I'm about to swing by the post office, and then I'm going to do my best to hop on the Niokolo bus (more of a giant van, really) back...

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