Mostly about Senegal, mostly in English, mostly about migration.
Madame Toubab ranks 8640 in Africa and 18 in Senegal. According to site visitors it ranks 3733, and 3873 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 12111 and 12016 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Although somehow fragmented, there is a very intense scholarly interest in African Studies in North America. Some groups are better organized and more active than others; some still hang on to a very colonial approach, while others have as their main goal to build bridges between academy and development efforts.
Today is a big day: Tabaski. This is the name that Senegalese Muslims use to refer to Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice that commemorates Prophet Ibrahim's devotion. As the story -- also present in the Old Testament and the Jewish Torah -- goes, God asked Ibrahim / Abraham to
A young woman knocks on the camera lense. "Hello? Hello?" This goes on for a couple of minutes, as her voice grows more and more impatient. This is how Lara Rosenoff, a colleague at the University of British Columbia, introduces her photo essay on Beatrice, a girl living in an camp
L'"élite", notamment le personel qui dirige les principaux partis politiques depuis près de trois décennies, a renoncé à son ambition de penser le développement (...) Cette situation consacre l'èchec du projet nationaliste dont certains partis dits de gauche étaient porteurs. Ils n'ont pas réussi à procurer à leur projet l'ancrage
Today in the news we learnt that the car rapides will "soon" be replaced, and I'm torn between sadness and relief. Sadness, because they are such an integral part of the life of the city, and so much of my learning process in Dakar happened inside of them. And relief,
Ok, so maybe my last entry was a bit pesimistic. In fact I wouldn't have been able to write it if I didn't have some sort of answer already in hand. I've heard many times that hope's the very last thing one should let go -- and yes, there is
En la última entrada comentaba que quizás no hay esperanzas en que los medios de comunicación occidentales dejen de presentar una imagen paternalista, paterista, y patetista de la migración de Sub Saharianos (en particular, senegaleses) hacia España. Pero quizás el panorama no sea tan tétrico como lo pintaba. La semana
I guess many (all?) of you have already been frustrated by the way African countries and people are represented in the Western media, and it is only because I am a neophite in this affairs that I find the issue particularly poignant. Does one every get used to this manipulation
Ok ... the last few weeks have been complicated, thus my silence, but now I'm back with a lot of stories (and pictures) to share. To break the ice, I wanted to share this video (via super Elia) remininding us of the terrible floods that have taken place in Senegal over
The video says it all ... :o) This second video comes through openalex and explains the Barefoot College's solar electrification programs across Africa. Very cool.
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