by totafab | Jul 20, 2022 | Dakar, Life, Senegalese Culture
According to a 2020 research (data from the World Bank and the National Institute of Statistics and Demographics *) there are 25,000 taxis roaming the streets of Dakar every day, for roughly 400,000 travelers (in an almost 4,000,000 people city). Taxis are easy to...
by totafab | Jul 13, 2022 | Family, Food, Life, Senegalese Culture, Teranga
Tabaski and I go back to 5 october 2014. A friend of mine invited me to his sister’s house and I happily said yes, not knowing what to expect. I was imagining a Christmas-like kind of day: you eat a lot, you drink, you chat and then, when you can’t eat anymore you...
by totafab | Jul 6, 2022 | Family, Food, Life, Senegalese Culture, Teranga
Next week-end is Tabaski. Tabaski is the Senegalese name of Aid el Kebir, the mutton feast. In honor of the supreme sacrifice that Abraham was ready to offer, killing his son because God asked him to, Muslims today sacrifice a mutton. Just like all traditional...
by totafab | Jun 22, 2022 | Family, Life, Senegalese Culture
It was the end of the summer, my brand new husband’s youngest children (11 and 13 years old) had spent the whole summer with us. In the summer everything goes, you wake up late and eat ice cream at all times, and I was absolutely not interested in issuing directives...
by totafab | Jun 15, 2022 | Dakar, Food, Senegalese Culture
When my sister came back home after living one year in Canada, in the glorious 90’s, she would tell me about something I considered fabulous: the dépanneur. This legendary dépanneur was a small shop that sold anything in small doses, at the weirdest times (for us in...