by totafab | May 10, 2024 | Dakar, Family, Food, Life, Senegalese Culture
In my house leftovers entered the stage with me. The kids pretend they like them and my husband makes tremendous efforts to eat them because, sometimes, I don’t offer an alternative. Leftover food is still kind of a tabou in this country. It’s mostly for the poor,...
by totafab | Oct 27, 2022 | Dakar, Food, Life, Senegalese Culture
Walking around Dakar you will see makeshift tents at every street corner, tied to poles, so that they kind of make a “room”. It is the gargottes, little low-profile restaurants with only a table and a few benches, where you can have breakfast (sandwiches with eggs,...
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 | 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...
by totafab | Jun 8, 2022 | Dakar, Life, Senegalese Culture
In Sengal every Friday is fashion week. Senegalese men and women are exquisitely elegant and love to wear traditional clothes in rich, buttery soft embroidered fabrics, lace and ruffles everywhere for women, 15 sq. meters caftans and headscarves nonchalantly and yet...
by totafab | May 18, 2022 | Dakar, Life, Senegalese Culture
The beach and the ocean: it is the first time I live so close to the water and you don’t need to a water sports fan or have health issues to appreciate the proximity with salted water and the opportunity to take advantage of it even for just fifteen minutes. ...