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Can you think of a better way to spend 3 minutes and 51 second than watching/listening to a rap video filmed in Senegal, sung in French?   I can’t.   The beautiful pink building with a sweeping staircases in the background is the House of Slaves Museum on Gorée Island.    A slave trading port preserved, so [...]

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Google recently updated to include a lot more detail in four african countries’ maps – Senegal included.  Diene and I had so much fun finding his hometown, Yayeme (spelled Yayem on the map).  How fun to be able to see the road I walked from Fimela, where the bus would drop me off, to Yayeme, [...]

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I have been full of nostalgia lately.  Memories of the past ten years have been invading my mind with a vividness I hadn’t realized was still there.  I think about my days at Miami University and I can smell the coffee machine in the lobby of the building where all my early morning psychology classes [...]

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Score!   I won two tickets to see Habib Koite play tonight at the Majestic.  The best part – when I looked to double check the start time, I realized that Tani Diakite is playing too.  Tani is a great Madison musician who has become a friend.  We just saw him play on Friday at the [...]

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Brave New Traveler published one of my articles today: Five Techniques for Surviving Political Debates. The thrill of reading my words in print hasn’t worn off yet. I hope that it never does. What is super cool is that BNT tracks page view and so I can tell that over 600 people have looked at [...]

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