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Guet Ndar I
“One of the characteristics that I like the most among the Guetndariens is that they are in solidarity with each other. If you have a fight with someone from Guet Ndar, it’s like fighting against the whole village! During the regatta, fishermen often fight each other by slapping their opponents with oars. But when the […]
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Lagos on my mind
This is a series of four short entries in which I talk about my personal relationship, both imagined and concrete, to four African megalopolis: Lagos, Kinshasa, Addis Ababa and Dakar. The first one out: Lagos. What are your touching grounds to a city? What images circle at the back of your retinas when you hear […]
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Cinema Vox
How many of you still go to the movies? Saint-Louis of Senegal has a fantastic annual documentary film festival with numerous screenings both indoors and in the open air, then there are some screenings also at the French Institute, but where can you actually go and watch films that are projected on a big screen? […]
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Waxande
One day I was on the riverbank behind the Great Mosque. There was a pregnant goat that fell into the water. A friend of mine told me: “Idrissa, you have to save this goat!” I undressed and put my clothes on an old boat by the water. When I had taken the goat out of […]
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Jarmo Pikkujämsä 