Category Archives: Diaries of a Wimpy Tubaab

As I have mentioned, The Gambian women work hard and many of them in the village I resided for the past month had a garden and/or a farm in addition to working on their compounds or outside the home.  Now, the men will work the farms also as they are larger and definitely require moreContinue reading “Diaries of a Wimpy Tubaab Volume 4: Farming”

If you haven’t noticed a theme through my prior posts is that the wimpy tubaab is sitting while the Gambian women are working.  The Wolof enjoy what we Americans would call “stating the obvious”.  So, dozens of times each day someone would come up to me while I was sitting at a compound and sayContinue reading “Diaries of a Wimpy Tubaab Volume 5: The Art of Sitting”