Thursday, 17 March 2011

Travelling to one side of Africa, a surf on emotions

Senegal


Afrique, et la le Senegal, tu m'as fait le meilleur cadeau. celui de vivre deconnecte de notre monde modene, oui touriste de passage. Au loin, enfin, ces verites eclatent de plus belle au grand jour, le mien... je digere, petit a petit. joie solitaire de ce ver qui m a fait vivre toutes ces surprises.

You offered me this gift, living, no thinking. I cannot stop anyway to write. this continent is the forgotten one of our modern world. To keep our comfort, we are still ignoring it. we are doing these mystakes again and again. after the first 2 weeks down there, my feelings confirmed by some other western people living permanently down there is that you know you have nearly no future, we are offering none, and you are living the present. to such extent. yes there are issues in Africa. yes there is corruption, yes, there are forgotten wars, yes there are awful diseases, yes there is a big weight of ancient traditions, some very positive, some very negative. yes, you are struggling to get your everyday food. yes, streets are very dirty, infrasctructure very bad. Aside, yes there is a wonderful panel of people spared from our modernity. that s one gift. you are worth it, you ve got the power to go forward. if only speaking less when setting up something. Senegal was one of a developped country down this continent, and yes that makes me scared. waouh, yes. when are we gonna remove that fold making us blind? Are we gonna still treat you as the waste of our little wars?

you don t have easily access to internet, but you can express it. Tiken jah fakoly, thanks you, yes you gave us our pardon. you haven t forgotten. we are still not worthing it. when are we gonna do the same? when are we going to react not blindly? Yes, I am ashamed. Yes, I will still be living. You offered me this power of simplicity, this desire of equity, this good sense of reality.

Thanks to you for making me sharing simply your everyday life. changing big thing starts by changing small. yes we ve got to change our habits.

Thanks. On that no more words ..

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