Tag: diary
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A Post-Covid Face Lift
This is a short update to what has bee going on in my neighborhood in Saint-Louis since November 2020. The island has become one massive construction site with new canalization and soon-to-be paved streets and cemented sidewalks. It feels as if everybody were preparing for the better day, including the town planners – a new…
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Next Stop Nouakchott
I hope to be able to return to Nouakchott soon for further research on some of its suburbs. If there is a city that started from scratch, well this is it. My impression of Nouakchott is a curious sense of intermediary space, although this is not based on knowing much about what it is like…
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Say It In Pulaar
The nightly curfew ends at six in the morning and soon after that, every day, I hear a young guy recite the Koran out loud and walk past the house on his way to… where? It’s almost as if he were “disinfecting” the town with his voice, walking on the empty streets at this hour,…
J.K. Pikkujämsä 