Fishing Village - Dakar

To Market - Dakar

The Beach - Dakar

The Beach I - Dakar

The Beach II - Dakar

Street Scenes - Senegal

The photos in this series of random street scenes were taken from the back seat of a car as we traveled through the city of Dakar  on multiple errands and visits in preparation for our departure from West Africa on Tuesday.   

 

Goree Island, Senegal

With interviews completed in Senegal and a tentative slate of candidates identified for the program, we left Dakar by ferry for nearby Goree Island.  Today the island is home for about 1,200 permanent residents and an attraction for tourists. During the years of the slave trade, the island served as the final port of departure from Africa for the men, women, and children captured and bound for slavery.

Riding the ferry from Dakar to Goree

Goree women preparing a noonday meal

Teenage residents of the Island playing a game of futbol

Dakar from Goree Island

Bourgainvillea grows abundantly on the island

Senegal - Night Scenes

Street Scenes - Mali

Bamako, Mali

Street Scenes - Niger and Burkina Faso