Written Thursday, 24 January 2008
The Muslim New Year was last Friday. At least here, it is not a big holiday like Korite or Tabaski, but it meant we got to eat meat with our lunch. And in the afternoon, the women make dego, the Senegalese no-oven-required version of cookies, which is just corn, rice, or millet flour, or even a sort of paste made out of beans, mixed with water and sugar. Then the village children run in packs from house to house demanding their share of dego. It felt kind of like trick-or-treating on halloween. And the adults go around asking their neighbors to forgive them for any wrongs they have committed against them.
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