Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Senegal Sweepstakes

Play the game! Win prizes! Answer these five questions about Senegal correctly, and you'll win a prize! Email your answers to chrissiefaupel@gmail.com. Bonne chance!



1. In 2010, this controversial monument to "African Renaissance" was inaugurated in Dakar, supposedly with some help from the North Koreans. This was the pet project of which Senegalese president?






2. This bridge leads visitors into the northern Senegalese city that used to be the capital of Afrique Occidentale Francaise, until Dakar stole that title in 1902. What city is this?





3. The Mouride brotherhood is the largest of the Sufi brotherhoods in Senegal. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Touba, the brotherhood's sacred headquarters. Pictures of the founder of the Mourides are found all over Senegal. What is the founder's name?

*Special thanks to Chip Ko
for the use of this picture.




4. These trees can be massive - a hollowed out trunk in Australia was once used as a prison. And they produce lots of fruit - in Malinke, if you compare someone to this tree, it means they keep pumping out the kids. In Iwol, a Bedik village in the region of Kedougou, you will find the biggest of its kind in Senegal. What kind of tree is it?




5. These kettles sit outside a mosque in Toubab Dialao for Muslims to wash themselves before prayer. What other important function do these kettles serve?