About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Senegal Archive
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It’s Monday morning in Oakland
Posted on July 2, 2007 | No CommentsMe and seven of my most intrepid friends went camping this weekend at Big Trees. Our stuff got tossed around by a bear cub that we dubbed Floyd — he put minor slashes in my tent and broke one of the poles while we were... -
Ousmane Sembène, 1923-2007
Posted on June 10, 2007 | No CommentsWow, the world has just lost one of its premiere filmmakers, Senegal’s Ousmane Sembène. (Previously: here, and here) I had the pleasure of meeting him once in New York a couple of years ago, and am proud to say that I shook his hand, but... -
“Africa’s Storied Colleges, Jammed and Crumbling”
Posted on May 19, 2007 | 1 CommentThere’s a fantastic piece in today’s Times about the sad, sorry state of universities in Africa, and particularly, Senegal: Africa’s best universities, the grand institutions that educated a revolutionary generation of nation builders and statesmen, doctors and engineers, writers and intellectuals, are collapsing. It is... -
Democracy in Dakar: Wade re-elected
Posted on March 1, 2007 | No CommentsSo Senegal just had its presidential elections this past Sunday, and the results are in today: Abdoulaye Wade has been re-elected. Ethan has a great roundup via Global Voices about what various Senegalese bloggers are saying about things. Not sure who’s who or what’s what?... -
WiFi cafés in Dakar
Posted on January 31, 2007 | No CommentsUnfortunately I haven’t found many places that have WiFi, but just by chance, today I found that Katia has WiFi. Katia is a pizza place that has a great outdoor patio on the Route de l’aéroport in Ngor (near the USAID office and a Shell... -
My weekend in Saint-Louis and Rosso (Mauritania)
Posted on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment* In 2002, I wrote my name in chalk on the wall outside my dorm room door at the Université Gaston Berger. In 2007, I confirmed that it’s still there. * Saint-Louis is basically the same as I remember it. There are some minor changes,... -
Halfway home
Posted on January 26, 2007 | No CommentsWell, my trip is basically half over. In two and a half weeks, I’ll be on a plane bound for the US. Next Saturday morning, local time, I’ll be on a plane bound for Paris, with a stopover in Casablanca airport, the beginning of the... -
Shafer skewers Kapuściński
Posted on January 26, 2007 | 2 CommentsSlate: Scratch a KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski enthusiast and he’ll insist that everybody who reads the master’s books understands from context that not everything in them is to be taken literally. This is a bold claim, as KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski’s work draws its power from the fantastic and presumably true... -
My nightly walk from the Internet
Posted on January 25, 2007 | No CommentsThere’s a walk that I’ve taken in three different places, in three different cities at three different times in my life. In 1997-1998 it was at Bossey, just outside Geneva. In 2002-2003 it was at UGB just outside Saint-Louis. In 2007, it’s been here, in... -
Place de l’Indépendance, Dakar
Posted on January 22, 2007 | 2 CommentsToday, someone tried to scam me. It was more amusing than anything else, honestly. I was trying to catch a cab in tourist central of Dakar — someone please tell me why the Place de l’Indépendance is where tourists seem to congregate here? It’s probably...
