funky French keyboards

haaayyy! i decided to hang out with a friend today in downtown Dakar, but its too damn hot, so we are taking a break in a cyber cafe. the keyboards here are in French style, so things arent where they normally are; so if i leave out punctuation or spell something odd, its because of that

ok, so the last time i wrote was on tuesday, and i believe i was exceptionally tired as a result of being immersed in French for 3 solid days. yes, thats correct. now i remember. therefore, i needed a break. so the next day i went to the beach with yemi and assane. i think earlier in the day i had tried going to a research center called CODESRIA, but they were having a big meeting, so i could not have access to their library. I did, however, find a cool bookstore around the corner and bought an english book, which was actually published by CODRESIA, on the state of social science research in Africa. its been a good book so far. its pretty militant about how social science research has failed africa so far because it has exploited Africa more than help Africa. so now, this book calls for a resurgence of new thinking in social science research to include African perspectives.