Tag: storytelling
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Hotel Paradise
Who slept in these round rooms? What shape were their dreams? Did they stay awake, listening to the repeating noise of ocean waves and too early calls for prayers? Or were they soothed by them so much so that they woke up late with heavy limbs? How many breakfasts, lunches, dinners were made here? How […]
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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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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 […]
Jarmo Pikkujämsä 