they were here and after that, the morocco, from the morocco. >> marie-caroline: my feeling was this -- that because we are at the crossing of various roads, eh, independently from the colonization prior, makes the senegalese people very open-minded, very good negotiators, also. ♪ >> anthony: marie-caroline camara is a st. louis metis --senegalese father, french mother-- and she's hosted a lunch with some friends and colleagues, all of whom consider themselves senegalese first, before anything. >> marie-caroline: and, and my feeling compared to other african countries, is that maybe it's come also from, uh, the, the wolof women because the metis family here, people were really married. well, at least the descendants -- >> anthony: between wolof and other groups. >> marie-caroline: -- recognize, you know? compared to west indies where even if people had, um, some white people had children with, um, their slaves they were not recognized. here all these, uh, children and unions were recognized. so, for me that is very special. >> woman 2: the most, eh, um, riches in, in senegal is our