Memories & Impressions of Futa Toro

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Update: April 2000"><U><B>Next Page</B></U></A></div> <div>                    </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" ><B>Futa Toro: Memories from the Desert's Edge </B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Futa Toro: Memories from the Deserts Edg"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Memories & Impressions of Futa Toro</B>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Update: April 2000"><U>Update: April 2000</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Journal"><U>Photo Journal</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Futa Toro: Web Resources"><U>Futa Toro: Web Resources</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="US Peace Corps"><U>US Peace Corps</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guest Book"><U>Guest Book</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>Memories & Impressions of Futa Toro</I></div> <div> When I was 21 years old I applied to the Peace Corps and was sent to the small village of Thioubalel-Lao located on the banks of the Senegal River which formed the border between Senegal and Mauritania in west Africa.  A village of several hundred people that at one time depended on the fish from the river and the millet fields stretched along the flood plains, in recent years things had changed as many of the young and resourceful men had left for Dakar, Cote DIvoire, Zaire or France.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Pulaar language"><U>The Pulaar language</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recipes"><U>Recipes</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ThiebouDjien"><U>Thieb-ou-Djien</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sounds"><U>Sounds</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Baaba Maal"><U>Baaba Maal</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History of the HalPulaar People"><U>History of the HalPulaar People</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>