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Five in the morning in Saré Yoba Diéga
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Diaobé market in 60 seconds
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Diaobé: the market that wakes four countries
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One pot, three hours, twelve people
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The last weavers of Kolda
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In Diaobé, the Kankurang still walks
Every hivernage — the West African rainy season — a figure clothed in the red fibre of the faara tree comes out into the Manding villages of Senegal and Gambia, in the season of the circumcisions. UNESCO has listed the rite since 2008 — and warned, in the same breath, that it is wearing thin. On 18 September, in Diaobé, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet him.
By Amadou Manka20 September 20265 min readSNSenegal
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Where we film
We started in Haute-Casamance, around Kolda, and we are following the roads that leave it — into The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Mali.
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Diaobé
SNSenegal Vélingara department, Kolda region — Upper Casamance
A crossroads town in Upper Casamance, sixty kilometres from the Guinea-Bissau border, where four language communities live side by side and one of West Africa's great weekly markets takes over the streets every Wednesday.
WolofSenegal
Jàmm rekk
[ djam rèk ]
- Meaning
- Peace only — the Wolof twin of the Pulaar answer
- In use
Na nga def? — Jàmm rekk.
“How are you?” — “Peace only.” Two languages, the same idea of what a good day is.
From the fire
What the village eats
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Thieboudienne
Rice, fish and vegetables cooked in one pot. The national dish, and the reason lunch takes three hours.
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Mandé region
Maafe
Groundnut stew, thick enough to hold a spoon upright. Every family swears its version is the original.
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Coast and rivers
Caldo de peixe
A fish broth with palm oil and lime, eaten with the hands and a lot of bread.
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How to greet someone in Pulaar
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