News stories about what I've described

I got back from my trip on Sunday, but I still have one more long entry to make here. In the meantime, here are a couple of news stories I've come across that relate to what I experienced.

"Senegal celebrates the sheep" (BBC News, Jan. 17). Eid-el-Kabir is the Arabic name for what West Africans refer to as Tabaski.

"W. Africa's new cash making a splash, and it smells good too" (Chicago Tribune via Yahoo!, Jan. 19). This is a story about the CFA franc, the official currency in Senegal and seven other West African Francophone nations.