The journey of a Senegalese girl in America… After eighteen years of joy growing up at home, the time had now arrived for me to fly away from the familial nest and go to university in the America so many of us dreamed of and created stories about how we imagined it would be. As […]

As many have seen with the recent news, U.S President Donald Trump responded rather quickly to Chinese addition of tariffs on US imports by imposing tariffs on a number of Chinese imports. That means a lot more than we think for the United states, for China as well as for the rest of the world […]

-“Leebone – “Lipoone” -“Amoone nafi” -“Daan na am” …..and so begins another tale The Senegalese culture, similarly to most western African cultures is a conventionally oral culture. What that means is that our history is not written in books but it is rather orally passed on from generation to generation, more specifically by griot tribes […]

The organization that I chose is the Canadian branch of Plan International. “Plan International is a global movement for change, mobilizing millions of people around the world to support social justice for children.”(plan, 2016). The reason I chose this organization in particular is because, when I went to Canada they reached out to me to make […]

Democracy is not a one size fits all. It is widely believed that a democracy is the most viable and ideal form of regimes in order for a nation to achieve economic prosperity and attain a certain level of development, however, it has also been demonstrated that those changes do not apply to every region […]

Disclaimer: I am not involved in Greek life nor do I plan on ever getting involved in it  The deliberation event I attended was on the topic of Greek life here at Penn state. The issue deliberated was how to prevent fraternity and sorority life from having bad behaviors and staining the university reputation. The […]

Youths are perceived differently depending on the values and beliefs held by communities. In some cultures, children are expected to grow to take care of their elders, in other cultures, they are an indication of wealth and in some others, like that of the United States, children are seen as the precious future that will […]

Recently, we started a new chapter in my Spanish 100 class focused on the different perceptions of youth and old age in our respective communities and in America in general. As a “grandma’s little baby” I feel that it was my duty to honor my two grand- mothers, as best I can, with a blog […]

Diversity in TV shows was never really an issue 60 years ago. Actually it was not even criteria people were concerned about in a predominantly white and segregated America.  Naturally, leading roles tended to be middle to upper class white men and second roles tended to be white women that only represented the love interest. […]