La Femme Noire

Gambian Girl bored out of my mind, addicted to twitter, passion for reggae, food lover, throw in some 80's music. This is in no shape or form a literary blog. Random thoughts and happenings. Thanks for stopping by :)

Dec 19, 2010

Lucy the Chimp

Posted by jatougaye | Tags: La Femme Noire, Africa, Gambia, Biology, British poetry, Chimpanzee, Janis Carter, Lucy, Lucy Carter, Lucy Temerlin, Lucy Temerlin, Maurice K. Temerlin, Nim Chimpsky, Poetry, Technology, The Lucy poems, Zoology | 2 Comments

Lucy and Janis Carter taken a year before Lucy's death

I lived in Gambia my entire life and never once heard of Lucy. Imagine the huge surprise I got when my roommates summoned me to the living room because they wanted to talk about a sensitive issue regarding a chimp killed in Gambia. This was a year ago. They asked me if I knew Lucy. I said "Nope..never heard of her.

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Dec 18, 2010

Long live the Maasai people

Posted by jatougaye | Tags: La Femme Noire, CDATA, Maasai, XML | 2 Comments

I love this photograph. The wrinkles on her face seem to be going in a circular motion just like the beads around her neck.

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Dec 18, 2010

Yohoss

Posted by jatougaye | Tags: La Femme Noire, Facebook, Aquaculture, Biology, Bivalves, CDATA, Ciabatta, Fishing industry, oil, Oyster, Seafood, Water | 0 Comments

I've had this on my Facebook for quite a while and I forgot to put it on here. I made "yohoss" ( Oysters & Gravy ) about a month ago. Since I couldn't get my hands on freshly smoked oysters, I grabbed two packs of canned smoked oysters from the supermarket. It wasn't expensive at all. I spent no more than a $1.70 on each.

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Dec 17, 2010

Muslim Names Around The World

Posted by jatougaye | Tags: La Femme Noire, Burkina Faso, China, Libya, Mali, Niger, Tunisia, Abdoulaye (Abdul)Ousmane, Abu Bakar, Amadou (Mohammad)Ibrahima (Ibrahim), Asia, Chinese culture, Daouda (Daud)Abdoulaye, Hui people, Ibrahima (Ibrahim)Salifou, Islam in China, Khadidjatou (Khadija)Youssou, Salifou (Salif)Khadidjatou, the Maghreb, west Africa, Youssou (Yusuf)Lamine | 0 Comments
I read an article some months ago and it gave me insight into Muslim names around the world. These were mainly derivatives of Arabic names.

Here are some excerpts from the piece.

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Dec 17, 2010

Viviane Ndour - Waaw Waaw

Posted by jatougaye | Tags: La Femme Noire, Entertainment, Senegalese Music, CDATA, Lady of the Lake, Music of Senegal, N'Dour, Seck, Sucre, Thion, Thione Seck, Viviane Ndour, Year of birth missing | 0 Comments

If you're a Viviane fan, you're gonna love this song. It's grown on me (although I could do without Salam Diallo and the out of tune drumming). I find myself singing along to certain parts...ie my favorite "Yaa saf saapak sucre" hehe

The quality of Senegalese Music videos has improved drastically and it makes this Senegambian very happy. Thione Seck's new video for his song DIAGA was like a mini movie, very nicely made. I would have posted it on here but the song is 8mins long and any song that goes beyond 5 minutes loses me along the way :)