Dakar — Thomas told me this. We were saying goodbye beneath the pre war apartment building where he lives in down town Dakar. From his 10th floor studio you can see the Atlantic on both sides of the sliver t...
Dakar — In Senegal thinking of Egypt. Senegal had it’s revolutions; Négritude was born here, African socialism, and so many Sufi brotherhoods. Wondering where Egypt’s will go, what it means, and how much suff...
Booze and Fire! Chinese men launching massive fireworks off the rocks at la maree restaurant. Someone's going to get hurt!
They sell wish birds here. A man with a cage full walks by. You pay to release one. A wish.
This statue is huge. It cost over 17 million to make. It celebrates an African renaissance...some call it a boondoggle.
This Saint Louis. A town and an island somewhere between Haiti and Zanzibar.
It's Ramadan! Everybody is reading the Koran in Senegal. In taxis, street corners, shops and beaches.
The joy of revolutions is so short. The reality so long.