Just like last year (here’s my post from last year: http://agentdstorm-senegal.blogspot.com/2010/05/gamou-gi.html),
the marabou in my village, Serigne Djim Ndiaye, hosted his annual Gamou Gi,
this time in mid May. The activities
were more or less the same this year as they were last year, except that it was
more elaborate and extravagant: he killed something like 17 or 18 cows this
year (as compared to the 15 he killed last year) plus goats and chickens; the major
national television station plus other media stations were there to broadcast
and record the event; and the preparations included not only building more
latrines and fixing up falling apart huts in the (vast) marabou’s compound, but
also persuading the village to commit to paying their water bills on time and convincing
the water company that these were not empty promises (because the running water
had been cut in Kayemor for several months prior to the Gamou since something
broke in the water tower and the water company was refusing to fix it because
so many villagers were not paying their water bill).
Here is an album I uploaded to Picasa with a bunch of
pictures and videos that I took from the Gamou: https://picasaweb.google.com/116102942817396013841/GamouGi2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCIvd3979ybr8Hw#. Don’t I blend in so well in the new
Senegalese outfit I got made just for this event?!?!? J
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