Ode to the Talibé
I never knew hustle until I came to Senegal
You can buy anything in the street
Food
Clothes
Cell phone credits
Even prayers
Everyday the Talibé awake with a yearn
To learn
To eat to live
They come to you in red or yellow buckets
Sometimes, open palms
Singing songs from the Qu’ran
Sometimes the words are right
Sometimes they are wrong
Sometimes they haven’t learned [...]

Whether it is the Quran or the Bible I come to a realization that we should not judge nor disregard those individuals who try to spread their values in regards to their belief system. Because it might just be their only knowing or passionate beliefs about their religious ideology, besides it would be really hypocritical [...]

You ask me how things are going
How things are
If I am enjoying myself
If I am having fun
Maybe that’s why this e-mail
Has taken so long to get to you
As I don’t have the words
In my vocabulary to express
The confusion that I experience
On a day to day basis
Because it’s hot –
Yet not as stifling as
The feeling I [...]

Whether it is the Quran or the Bible I come to a realization that we should not judge nor disregard those individuals who try to spread their values in regards to their belief system. Because it might just be their only knowing or passionate beliefs about their religious ideology, besides it would be really hypocritical [...]