Tag: senegal
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Photography and Storytelling: A Week in Review
Wednesday – À la prochaine, mama, produced by the community theater Ras el-Hanout, dealt with death, grief, and coping with loss, all of which touch each of us sooner or later. It elicited very moving reactions from the audience and made me think that perhaps such issues are not widely discussed in the Moroccan community.…
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Afropolis Dakar: A New Nexus
I’m sharing with you a teaser for my upcoming short film in the series on urban space and city dwellers. This film will discuss the status quo of urban planning and the Dakarois civic activism in times in which the public space seems to be growing more and more private with often foreing investments. The…
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A One-Minute-City
Have you ever taken part in a community design process in some way? As far as I remember, I did such things in the seventies every time there was a need to embellish the neighbourhood together. The reward for doing this was usually a soft drink of red or yellow colour, someties maybe even some…
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Afropolis 2020 Saint-Louis
What makes you remember a street? Is there an area in town to which you return often? Why? We all know how specific areas within any given city have their own feel and pace, depending on the time of the day. I was always a walker and in whatever town I lived, I always developed…
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Point E
Bi ma njëkkee ñëw Dakar lu jege ñaar fukki at ci Plateau laa daloon ci goxu jaaykat yi ci “centre-ville”. Waaye, bi ma tambalee dal ci Yoff walla Ngor ci ben néég walla studio, ñaari gox yépp nekk ci bët gannaaru dëkk bi, te bi ma miinee koñ yooyu ci wetu géég gi, laa leen…
J.K. Pikkujämsä 