Our family in 1992 posing with my grandma's
wringer washer powered by solar panels |
Our house, seen from the
field behind |
Our house in Santiaba, which was at the edge
of the village |
Our house on the left, my study on the right,
seen from our backyard |
Our house on the right,
looking past our front yard to the rice fields beyond |
Two cows in our backyard |
Tina hanging up the laundry |
Our family in the front yard |
I am pulling water from
our well |
Leaving our "yard" to visit in the village |
The center of
the village, with the chief's house on the right |
Sitting with village elders at a funeral |
Fresh cow meat for the visitors. Nothing is
wasted |
A group gathers in the
village |
Visiting under the mango tree |
Drinking African tea in the village |
The "house band" |
This guy has probably been
drumming for hours! |
Celebrations and dances are heartily enjoyed |
Some folks from the village,
with Tina standing in the back |
Two friends from the village and Josh |
Everyone is running from the Konkron (a
"spirit" that keeps the circumcision rituals in check) |
At the outskirts of the village |
Several kids acting out a cultural
ritual |
Someone is taking this game
a little too seriously! |
The two in costume would
dance in the middle, surrounding by the dancing crowd |
A group of women hoeing the
ground for planting |
Always having fun when working |
A woman plants rice the
traditional way |
A group of (and the chief) working in
the field right behind our house |
A woman waters her small
garden |
Fields were plowed by hand,
just like these two men are doing |
Another local celebration |
Everybody puts on their
finest clothes! |
The crowd moves on |
The villagers find the little white girl very
amusing |
Dust rises from the ground
as the huge group moves |
A local school |
One of the men from the
village tries his hand at mowing the lawn |
In my study with Mamadou |
Josh and Bekka,
climbing a large tree in our backyard |
Local girls
holding my daughter Bethany. She is the one with the tattooed
map of Senegal |
Bethany with Sese |
Josh playing soccer with the village
boys
|
Playing soccer behind our house |
Bek, Bethany, and an
unidentified village kid |
Bethany and Bekka |
Drawing water from the well
was a group affair |
Josh and our short-lived dog,
Dagon |
Bekka and Josh, with
pet monkey, Cheechee
|
Josh and CheeChee swinging in our
backyard |
Bekka and Cheechee on the
swing |
Bethany has her turn posing |
And
finally, Cheechee
poses solo |
Bekka (on the right), some other missionary
kids and a few kids from the village |
Josh suiting up to play soccer
at school |
Josh sitting on the beach in
Dakar, on a break from school |
Bethany and her friend down
by the Casamance river, with Baobab trees in the background |
Bethany poses by a dugout
canoe in the Casamance, which is actually the world's thinnest and most
river-like ocean inlet |
Driving behind a dangerously
underloaded truck (by African standards) |
Driving south from Dakar
|
There are several areas in
the northern region that consist entirely of Baobab trees to the horizon |
Typical houses of a southern
Senegaesel village |
These trees were often found
in the more rainforest-like parts of southern Senegal |
Brad Sayers showing the young boy Sheikh the
National Geographic Atlas |
Tina Sayers, daughter Bethany Sayers and Fatou
in Bignona (1989) |
The little white kids were always a hit |
I quickly learned to make African Tea |
