Fabacari's Wedding in Harlem

The Happy Couple Dancing

Fabacari and his Spanish bride

A Huge Pot of Beef in Senegalese Tomato Sauce (Sauce Rouge)

Rice in Sauce

These pots are H-U-G-E!

Me with new friends from Harlem

Auwa with baby Kristina

Kristina and Sandarin

Tina with Marietou

Kristina brought me to a traditional Jola wedding in Harlem, our neighborhood.   One of the young men from an animist family married a young lady from Spain.  Jola weddings are a neighborhood affair.  The night before the wedding the male kin slaughtered a bull bought by the groom and all his female relatives spent all night preparing the food.  On the day of the wedding they cooked it in large cauldrons over wood fires.  There were so many people there and the crowd was dancing.  There was a DJ, a band of drummers and a saxophone player.