This Senegalese Life

I'm currently on vacation and will be back in Senegal in April. In the meantime I'm enjoying all the fresh veggies, fancy cheese, ...

It's hut renovation and construction season here in Salémata, and people are building huts all over the place. These new huts are near ...

There haven't been many big holidays lately, but in January there was the Grand  Magal, when many members of the Mouride brotherhood ma...

Over the last few months there have been some cases of  yellow fever  around the region of Kédougou, so the Ministry of Health got a v...

Kola nuts , or  goro  in Pulaar, are something you give to someone here when you want to show that you respect them or to mark a special ...

And by big city I mean Kédougou. With all the pre-election protests that were going on in the bigger towns and cities I've been stayin...

So, the PeaceCare team arrived in K é dougou about a week and a half ago and was made up of doctors, residents, a med student, and a coupl...