Goodbye for Now, Dakar
by Boima Tucker
Not even 10 hours out of Dakar and I’m already missing it. What a great city. I’ll definitely be back soon, and hopefully have a better hold on my French language skills. Dakar in a lot of ways (right now at least) is the African city of my dreams. It’s not my ancestral homeland, but it feels like home to someone in between worlds like myself. A diverse cosmopolitan population, but a strong sense of cultural pride and deep traditional […]
Categories: Gigs, Thought • Tags: africa, africa is the future, african identity, Dakar, Hip Hop, identity, islam, mbalax, modern, Senegal, this is africa, tradition, urban
