Dakar

student nurse are required to interview a member of the community, to find an article that matches their case study, and to compare the findings with the interviewee’s conditions. On October 15th, 2015, I interviewed a member of my Mosque. Her name is PC, and she is 73 years old. She was born and raised in Senegal, West Africa. PC is from Casamance, a region in the southern part of Senegal. She did not start first grade until the age of eight years old. In her tribe, girls were expected to stay home and help with the household chores. Her parents always thought that going to school was a waste of time. At the age of fourteen years old, she was forced to marry an old man from her village. She stopped school in sixth grade. PC later moved to Dakar, the capital of Senegal. There, she was handwashing clothes for a low pay on weekends and working as a maid during the week. The family she used to work for offered her to move with them to the United States. In the pursuit of a better life, PC agreed. When she arrived here, she found a job at the CVS and remained there for years. At the age of 57, she started getting sick and had to stop…

African Storytelling, whether it be the oral tradition or the written tradition, hold within them an underlying message that can explain some form of African rituals or way of life. In God’s Bits of Wood, the rites of passage approach is used to explain some social commentary in African communities and gives insight on how they go about life and why things are the way they are. The social commentary explained through the rites of passage is that of how women in the African societies went from…

It is a shock to Diouana that the family’s beliefs have always been that they are superior to her. The family employing Diouana is static, and while their actions change, their beliefs do not. Their initial, cordial attitudes were meant to convince Diouana to work for them. If they were pleasant, Diouana would be more likely to want to work for them while in Dakar and eventually travel to France. The family saw her as an easy target to manipulate to get what they want, a cheap, hardworking maid.…

ethnic ties and ancestral rituals that are still practiced in Senegal today. The meaning of culture cannot be underestimated for any country. All these factors have both direct and indirect roles in the development of a country's’ culture. Senegal once was part of the West African Empire of Ghana, Tekur, and Mali. The nation takes its name from the river that runs along its north-east borders, making the frontier with Mauritania and Mali. A poetic saying from the Wolof people states that the…

in 2012/2013 the annual household waste volume produce by the district was estimated to 48 031T per annum with a recycling rate of 26%. In the same period 45 726T send to landfill5 and the waste management cost and service for Warwick district was estimated to £2.2 million. Dakar, capital of Senegal located in the sub-Saharan Africa cover 79 sq km with a population estimated to 1,081,222 in 20136. In the PEPJM report publish in 2011 the volume of waste produce in the city is estimated to…

However, Dakar managed to accomplish this task without hesitation, seeing that he provided valuable information on polyvinyl chloride and fluoride in our water system. But the only issue that I noticed with Dakar was time restriction, seeing that these type of topics usually take about thirty minutes to talk about. On other hand, Dakar still managed to provide an effective demonstration with the device that detects pH levels in our water system, which astonished a majority of the audience, when…

country to live abroad. In addition, they choose the poorest, rural regions of the country as well as from neighboring countries, particularly Guinea-Bissau. Most of the parents who send their child to Quranic schools willing to send their child by a wish for the child to memorize the Quran and acquire a moral education. However, for some parents, they want to pass over all responsibilities to the teachers by sending them to the Quranic schools. It becomes the teacher’s responsibility, and no…

As Morrison describes (2012), assessment is the process of collecting information about children’s development, learning, behavior, academic progress, need for special services, and achievement in order to make decisions. As a student, I went through lots of assessment. Being born in a French speaking country in Africa, Dakar the city I lived in Senegal, the school system is very different than the US. My elementary school was based in the French education system. From what I remember, our…

over Mali. Under the French colonization, Mali becomes as the part of the French West Africa and known as French Sudan. French West Africa was a French federation that consist eight France colonial territories in Africa such as Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan, French Guinea, Corte d’Ivoire, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Dahomey (Benin) and Niger. The federation established in 1895 until 1960 at Dakar. In 1946, Mali was become part of French Union. Under the constitutional of Fifth French…

The point of the march was to support the strikers and to protest their (the women’s) treatment because the French had dismissed the wives of the strikers as being concubines. There was a small group of men that followed behind the women on their trip to Dakar. The leader of this march was of course a woman and her name was Penda. It was odd that the women were the ones who lead the march and not the men. This shows that the patriarchal period is pretty much over. Women had taken control and had…