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Musicians performing in different languages often strike similar chords. Listen to the intense, undulant wail of Assane Ndiaye on the song Nguisstal, a track on Streets of Dakar: Generation Boul Fale, a compilation of young Senegalese acts. Boul fale is a Wolof phrase that means, loosely, "Never mind." The American punk group Nirvana's seminal album of teen angst was also titled Nevermind. Alienation, it seems, is a nation without borders...
...getting hot in club Asylum, but the dancers just keep on going. Outside, the cops are putting up barricades for tomorrow's celebrations. Inside, the party has already begun. At this club and ones like it around the world--in Sao Paulo, in Dakar, in Havana, in New York City--Independence Day is every night...
...made all sorts of interviews. [Our class] had escaped service in the second world war and we had a little built of a guilt complex," Kane says. "When Uncle Sam came and pointed his finger, we just said yes." Kane, who went on to be officer in command in Dakar, Algiers and Lisbon, says he took the job out of a commitment to civic duty. An added perk was the starting $33,000 salary, "more money than I ever could have imagined...
Marty's windsurf from Dakar, Senegal, to French Guiana took 37 days. He refused even to allow his support boat to tow him while he slept: "I didn't want to gain a single mile unless my wrists and arms felt it," he later told a magazine interviewer. "For me, freedom is being able to choose my own challenges. I am not afraid of losing, because there are honorable defeats." Among them, surely, his defeat last week...
After Navy senior center Sitapha Savane--who had a game-high 26 points--beat Coleman inside, it looked as though Savane would have an easy two, but 6'3 Prasse-Freeman stood his ground against the 6'8 giant from Dakar, Senegal and drew the offensive foul...