Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Pictures: Touba, Dakar and Mbour

Leaving Touba, passing all the cars and overcrowded trucks on their way in, for the Grand Magal pilgrimmage:


Kap, at the beach with the girls from the first family we stayed with in Dakar:


Cheikh Lo concert in Dakar:


In the middle seats of a sept place car down to Mbour (you can't tell, but there are three people behind us and two in front of us in this normal-size station wagon):


Maniang, Kap's friend and our host in Mbour, making ataaya, Senegalese tea (green tea together with fresh mint, brewed for a while, then poured back and forth to warm the glass and create the pretty foam, then drunk quickly so the glass can be passed on, because there are never as many glasses as people):


Visiting the (unusually well-appointed) preschool where Maniang's sons Omar and Tacko go (the kids here are playing Duck Duck Goose!):



Watching men make djembes while hanging out at the dance-and-drumming school in Mbour:

No comments:

Post a Comment