Tag: Inspired Stories
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“You will get played, sis!”
Reading Time: 5 mins Ramata: I can’t believe this. That &%#@? played me! Binette: Are you surprised though, sis? You saw all the signs coming… Ramata: You’re right, I can’t even lie. But still! I had it under control. Binette: There’s no such thing, girl. You try to control too much. Ramata: Damn, when do…
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Dating as a Senegalese-American Woman
Reading Time: 7 mins Preface: this will be clunky. There’s just so much to be said! Ladies, I’m going to start this post off with a question: have you ever talked to your parents about dating? Like at what age would you be allowed to have a boyfriend? What were the boundaries once you did…
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Work-Life Balance during a pandemic
3 minutes to read The last year and a half have been intense to say the least. I always aspired to have a greater work-life balance and I thought working from home would enable that. I was wrong, point blank. My personal and professional lives have merged into one: in the boundaries of my room…
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What it means to be a feminist…to me.
Feminism has such a negative connotation in Senegalese society and in this post, I give my two cents on the matter.
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Soda, my sister
**An open letter to my baby sister (who’s not much of a baby anymore)** Hey girl, I want to share some life lessons with you today. Not because I know it all. And certainly not because I have got this life figured out. But because I want to shed some light on a few things…
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KBF a dit … Un roi n’est pas loyal
Quand j’ai sondé mes amis des médias sociaux pour énumérer les caractéristiques d’un bon leader, j’ai obtenu les résultats comme ceci : Qui sait écouter Quelqu’un ayant de l’empathie Quelqu’un qui est honnête, ouvert d’esprit et qui a du courage Quelqu’un qui sait motiver une équipe Quelqu’un qui n’a pas toujours besoin d’être à la…
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Notre “Diiné” (religion): Oustaz Pape Hane
**Qui est Pape Hane?** Je m’appelle Macoumba Hane, mais on m’appelle Pape Hane. Je suis né à Thiès, au Sénégal. Je vais résumer mon enfance en disant que j’ai appris le Coran à un jeune âge – mon maitre coranique s’appelait Makhtar Cisse. J’ai terminé le Coran, puis j’ai déménagé à Kaolack pour apprendre le…
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Maguette, on behalf of all the women holding it together during Ramadan
Reading time: ~4 mins I feel like I just laid my head down no more than an hour ago! I swear that alarm clock races with my sanity sometimes. It was time to get up and prepare a meal before sunrise. Ramadan had begun and it was going to be a long month of waking…
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NitDoffKillah – Défis au développement au Sénégal
AG: Parlez-nous un peu de vous. NDK: Mon vrai nom est Mor Talla Gueye. J’ai grandi à Louga au Sénégal, et j’y ai passé toute mon enfance et mon adolescence. Je suis entré dans le hip hop à l’adolescence et j’avais l’habitude de faire du ‘‘break dance’’ avec un groupe d’amis. Notre groupe s’appelait BMG (Bokk Mboloo di Gestu). C’est…
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NitDoffKillah – Challenges to Development in Senegal
AG: Tell us a little bit about you. NDK: My real name is Mor Talla Gueye. I grew up in Louga, Senegal and spent my entire childhood and adolescent years there. I got into Hip Hop as an adolescent and used to break dance with a group of friends. We went by the name BMG…
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