Category: Culture & Travel

101 Untitled Pieces by Nakeesha Charles

I released my first ebook of poetry yesterday. It’s available on Kindle / Amazon here. A few summers ago I went on a paper purge. I went through…

Surviving COVID

This Coronavirus situation has lasted longer than any of us common folk could have expected. It has affected business, travel and day to day life for over a…

Sobo Bade

Toubab Dialaw

Twenty minutes from Dakar’s airport sits a series of small seaside villages in a cove off the Atlantic’s African coast. Amoung those villages is an area popular with…

Senegalese Wrestling

In Wolof, the most widely spoken African language in Senegal, wrestling is called “Laamb” or “Lamb Dji.” In Serer, another popular African language with at least five dialects,…

Iris Hotel

Pointe des Almadies

Dakar, Senegal – West Africa On the other side of the Atlantic (from the North American perspective), on the coast of Senegal in their capital city Dakar, there…

Redondo Beach

Everyone seems to be taking their time to do whatever it is they are doing in whatever time it takes to do it.

Kwanzaa Basics

Daily Greeting – Habari gani means what’s the news or what’s up, in Swahili, the langauge of Kwanzaa. Answer by stating the cooresponding day/principle. The Nguzo Saba –…