Once More Glasnost is written by Leita Kaldi, who at the age of fifty-five served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 1993 to 1997. The story is from her memoir, Roller Skating in the Desert.
Dancing at the Sports Bar
Leita Kaldi
Dakar, Senegal | November 27, 2007>
The Sports Bar, a waterfront dive, recalled Dakar's long history as a coastal port where rapacious Europeans and opportunistic Africans had made deals since the 1400s, most notably in slaves. Not surprisingly, there was still a lively flesh trade going on in the Sports Bar. Tables surrounded an outdoor cement dance floor with a raised "observation deck" on one side. Behind the mobbed bar, toilets turned into smelly bogs early in the evening, and urinals with shoulder-high partitions doubled as sex stalls where a prostitute could be rented for a few francs a minute....
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