Comments on: A short(ish) history of St Louis

By: saint louis, senegal | sorin bogdan | www.sorinbogdan.ro | sorin bogdan's blog

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:15:59 +0000

[...] pe aici. pana si de politisti. unul dintre ei ne opreste si ne cere niste marunt, sa-si ia o cafea. orasul arata ca in filmele cu zorro. cladiri in stil colonial francez, cu magazine sau restaurante la [...]

By: la gandiole, senegal | sorin bogdan | www.sorinbogdan.ro | sorin bogdan's blog

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:22:30 +0000

[...] mai avem 35 de kilometri, pe sosea apare marcajul si vedem primele borne. ajungem la autogara din saint louis pe la 15:00, dupa ce trecem pe langa campusul universitatii “gaston [...]

By: bex

bex — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:38:25 +0000

Thanks for the comment Helen. Nope, we didn’t see the fishing village – sounds intriguing. Unfortunately, we have seen plenty of evidence of the EU boats all along the coast from Morocco to here and often fishing illegally. And yep, the reduced fish stocks really are a disaster for people here (in Mauritania, the government sold the fishing rights to the EU and so Mauritanians now often have to buy fish from their own waters from the EU at European prices…).

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:32:04 +0000

Nice writing, great hearing your experience and reading about the town I was born in. Did you see the fishing village of chalets built by the European company that came supposedly to teach the locals how to process their fish?. But now the villagers have problems finding enough fish as their pirogues can’t get out as far as the European boats, and the fish stock has been greatly reduced.

By: bex

bex — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:48:27 +0000

Thanks Marlène, yep, I’d recommend it (I’ve found it a lot easier to read at the end of a day’s cycling than Africa Since Independence, which is full of good stuff but quite hard going, in my opinion).

Cheers,
B

By: Marlène

Marlène — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:43:48 +0000

Well researched and written article, well done! The State of Africa sounds like a really good book, thanks for mentioning it, I may get hold of a copy for myself.