In March the Senegalese Ministry of Tourism held an event to launch its campaign to promote Senegal’s diverse touristic offering in the St-Louis region.
experience in senegal is different, also. not only the post-colonial experience, because in saint-louis we had lots of influences, i think. anthony: arab, portugese, uh . man: so, because, yes, the portuguese and the english first 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
anthony: it s an amazing meal. delicious. marie-caroline: amazing meal? anthony: yes, really good. marie-caroline: okay. anthony: so, how are things in senegal today? man: how are things? what kind of things? anthony: is the environment good for business in senegal now? is it getting better? i mean, there seems to be a lot of money coming in dakar. you see buildings going up, somebody s building. marie-caroline: they key thing for me will be the development of, uh, business and because when you look at all these young people in saint-louis and there is no companies to employ them. let the young people take a big part of the power, which is not in our tradition, but we need the young people to be, to be strong. anthony: if you could compare yourself to someplace else in, in another major city in the world, the new york of west africa? man: the hong kong of west africa. anthony: ah, oh, ouch. [ laughter ]
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 culture. is not, uh, petrol, oil, or, other thing. i think that it s our culture, our our type of life, our customs. anthony: music. woman 2: music, yes. our, uh, culinary art. marie-caroline: okay, so, we are eating mulet farci a la saint-louisienne. anthony: lovely. marie-caroline: it s a big fish from the river. anthony: mulet farci stuffed mullet. the fish deboned and filled with a seafood farce of fish, herbs, vegetables, and bread and baked.
comes, came through here. woman: il sont, il sont. anthony: attitude about many things are decidedly different here. where many post-colonial cultures are ambivalent or conflicted about their bloodlines picking black or white to identity with here, people are proud of who they are and where they came from. all of it. anthony: i m curious why the post-colonial experience in senegal is so different than the post-colonial experience almost everywhere else. man: i think that the pre-colonial and the colonial experience in senegal is different, also. not only the post-colonial experience, because in saint-louis we had lots of influences, i think. anthony: arab, portugese, uh . man: so, because, yes, the portuguese and the english first 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