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Beautiful goree

Just 3km off the coast of Dakar is a small island that began as a trading post for the portuguese in mid-15th century. It was constantly fought over by the french and english for the next 2 centuri...

Dakar blues

Only just! I arrived at De Gaulle airport at 9.36am for a 9.35 swisschocolate flight to Zurich and then on to Africa. A cosmic swing in my direction with the swiss running ten minutes late and ...

Ramadan my way

Like most holidays here, or any outside of my Christian upbringing, I become enchanted with the mysticism and exoticism of it all. Ramadan included. The past two years, I sat and listened to the mo...

SENEGAL

Saint Louis I had been lucky to get through the Mauritanian border formalities without paying a bribe and lady luck stayed with me as I met this gentleman on the ferry as he was crossing the Senega...

Africa, spring 1999 part II

6. Pests and bush taxis in the Casamance I I think that any foreigner who has lived in or really traveled in West Africa (as opposed to someone who visits in a tour group or comes here on busine...