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Senegal: Arts and Culture

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Dakar

The SIT office in Dakar is in the area called Point E, walking distance from the University and an area with refugee programs and numerous non-governmental organizations working on various programs ranging from Education to AIDS and HIV programs, International Development. The office is close to most research centers such as the Baobab center with its libraries; the CODESRIA, an African research center; and the FORUT, a non-governmental organization that works on training programs on media and filmmaking. This area also includes amenities such as cyber-cafes.

Dakar abounds with lively cultural activities and well-known musicians such as Baba Maal, Ismael lo, Coumba Gawlo, Thione Seck, etc.

Village des Arts

Students do both a visual arts and performing arts segment at Village des Arts, a state-owned facility for visual art professionals.  For the visual arts workshops, students choose glass painting (peinture sous verre), ceramics, bronze sculpture, or sand painting (sablage), and the performing arts workshop is on dance and drumming djembe. Students work closely with the artists, attend their exhibits, and visit their workshops in their free time. Some students have conducted their ISPs there.

La Petite Côte/M'Bour

Students present their ISPs (Independent Study Projects) at La Petite Côte, and also experience much more. The group visits the wildlife reserve of Bandia where a variety of animal species from South Africa, Cameroon and the Niokolo Koba Park are reintroduced to Senegal. There are also burial mounds called Serere pyramids and a baobab tree where griots were buried.

After Bandia, students visit Joal-Fadjout. Joal is the birthplace of the first president of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor. The religious tolerance in Fadjout is demonstrated by Muslims and Christians being buried in the same graveyard. Students have experienced the participation of the entire village in a funeral procession that was part of a traditional burial ceremony. Fadjout is also known as the village aux coquillages/ "Sea Shell Island" and is linked to Joal on the mainland by two wooden bridges