n Clown at a champion wrestling match at Léopold Sédar Senghor Stadium.
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“Our three week program in Senegal packed with excursions and lectures by distinguished local intellectuals was enormously successful on many levels. We focused on the crucial significance of the arts — music, dance, painting, sculpture, community murals, and film — in Senegalese culture. In addition, we learned a great deal about Senegalese history as well as contemporary social and political issues. Equally important, SVSU students immersed themselves with sensitivity and respect in the everyday lives of a Francophone, West African, and predominantly Muslim culture. (This was the first SVSU study abroad program to a majority Muslim nation.) Appreciating cultural diversity as well as our common humanity, SVSU students established many friendships and scholarly contacts with whom they continue to correspond. Indeed, SVSU students will never see the world and their own country the same way again.” —Scott Youngstedt, Professor of Sociology