Written Wednesday, 26 November 2008
On my way up to the Futa, the northern, really Sahel edge-of-the-desert part of Senegal, to visit a friend and celebrate Thanksgiving, we passed a village called Semme. Which is what my family's last name was, hundreds of years ago when my ancestors immigrated to America.
Which leads me to think that maybe my ancestors were Pulaar! Or, a little more seriously, maybe relatives of my ancestors colonized this part of Senegal!
Or, much more probably but also much less interestingly, maybe semme is a word in Pulaar that I don't know, and it has nothing to do with my family. But I like my first explanation the best.
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