Day 2

I am sitting here in my room without air and I can't open up my windows due to the mosquitos. Dakar has periodic blackouts so I must grin and bare it.
We just came back from a reception where the food was delicious, the attendee were dancing, live Senegalese music, salsa, hip hop and rap. Do the Senegalese love to dance! We took 2 hours to get there and just 10 minutes to return to the hotel due to an accident. There are vendors all along the way selling items made in China along the streets. So much of it that I don't want to even look at them. Lots of people trying to get you to buy, everywhere you go.

An interesting observation: we visited a huge bronze monument dedicated to the African renaissance atop one of the 2 peaks in the city. It was designed by a Senegalese architect but build by the North Koreans because they know how to construct propaganda sculptures. The guide said that the North Korean prisoners build it. I could see them working on the sidewalks in their uniforms. When there is so much poverty why are they supporting this? I will download my pictures tomorrow.