Traditional meat and fish dishes, soccer, industrious film-making, and Tam Tam music are all things that categorize the cultural richness of the Senegalese population, but you don’t have to go all the way to Senegal in order to experience this culture: according to surveys conducted in 2008,…

Continuously making headlines over the past few weeks, Mali, the francophone West African country, doesn’t seem that far away when we think of the Malian population that exists within the borders of the United States.



As a nation of immigrants, it comes as no surprise that we have our very own Malian community. According to the latest Census, there are approximately 8000 Malian…

Attention, French natives: Do you mind if I ask you guys a personal question? How often do you folks  wash your hair?



No, I'm not trying to raise hackles (or plumes de cou, for that matter), but I recently read a  factoid online stating that 90% of Americans wash their hair every day. Well, let me tell you: never  have I felt so American in my entire life. I myself have been performing such ablutions religiously  for the last 30 years! But then "religiously" is no longer the word…