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Geopolitics and giant goats: thoughts from a week in Dakar
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 12 October 2009
By Ilmari Soininen, KF9 UIMCEC Dakar, Senegal “Africa lite” is how a retired career diplomat once described Senegal to me. Glancing at a map of West Africa he may have a point. Bloody diamond-fuelled conflicts in Sierra Leone and Liberia, violent Islamic extremism in Mali and Mauritania and the recent military coup in Guinea make Senegal look like [...]
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Signing Off from Senegal
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 26 May 2009
My memories of the last eight months away from home are a jumbled mass of color, freedom, fear, patience, frustration, and energy – raw, shifting memories that have not yet arranged themselves into neat, packageable stories that I can pull from the shelf at parties when I get home. I have tested my sense of self [...]
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