26 February 2009

Bay Fall Rastman

So my host cousin was upset with my senegalese name, and renamed me Mousse.

Anyway, lets talk about Senegal.

I want to talk about something. Bay Fall is this brotherhood of Islam in Senegal as I understand it, and they happen to all have dreadlocks. But as a white boy with dreads, my interactions with them are... interesting. There tends to be a few Bay Fall begging on the walk to school everyday, and as soon as they see me, its like lions on a gazelle carcase. I try to talk past, but sometimes they even corner me or jump the high way barriers I have to cross on the way to school, blessing me and such, then asking for money. (I have to cross a highway and dodge cars every day on the walk to school) ballin

So I was looking up the financial situation in Senegal. Currently it is considered a Highly Indebted Poor Country. In 2002, the external debt accounted for 70 per cent of the country's GDP. The imports are twice as high as the exports (CIA World Factbook). And the population of undernourished is rising. It's a hole that's only going to ge deeper and deeper if things continue the way they are now. So what's going on with that development thing anyway?

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