Word: senegalã
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...sympathetic, invites them to stay. The interactions between Vale and his guests possess both the awkwardness and the warmth that such a situation would invite. As a result, the middle part of the film is the most nuanced and engrossing portion. Though Zainab—a jewelry-maker from Senegal??€”seems initially cautious and afraid of Vale, Syrian drummer Tarek befriends him quickly and teaches him to play the djembe, an African hand drum. Tarek and his drums fill the void in Vale’s life in a way that his painful piano lessons never could...
...said in a phone interview from Senegal, where she is running a workshop on her study’s results. Wirth’s study—conducted in conjunction with researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal??€”discovered almost 47,000 differences among the genes of the parasite in Africa, Asia, and South America. This genetic variation gives Plasmodium falciparum the ability to overcome vaccines and other treatments for malaria, allowing the disease to continue spreading. “It’s very rapidly...
Ousmane Sembene’s 1977 film was banned in his home country on a wacky technicality, but the history only adds to the allure of Senegal??€™s most famous auteur’s most ambitious flick. Seemingly, the kidnapping of a beautiful princess is the centerpiece, but that is just the lens through which he address some of Senegal??€™s most pressing issues: Muslim expansion, Christianity and the slave trade. The title comes from the name for the common lower class, and the sweeping scope of this study envelops their desperate desire for the possibility...
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