Also, a satirical piece published in the wonderful Granta magazine on "How to Write about Africa" by Binyavanga Wainaina.
While very patronizing and a bit superficial, this BBC article talks about the dwindling number of irregular migrants from Senegal. Since Senegal is rarely in the news, I figured I would link this article, even if it is problematic.
As a point of reference, I used to work in Yoff "the fishing village" that happens to house the international airport. Yoff is not a fishing village for many reasons, one being that there are fewer people who fish for a living because of the large numbers of commercial fishing companies that are plaguing West Africa with their over-fishing. Another story all together.
Another point of reference, this sentence, "They may be talking about an economic crisis in Europe but if you want a real crisis it's right here in Senegal," said in Wolof is stated by every taxi driver I have had in the past few months. Senegal dafa metti.
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