Senegal Edition
World Borrowed Tool Day leads today's complete edition for Senegal.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for the neighborly economy of ladders, pans, cords, books, advice, and returning things better than you found them.
The Bengal Subah is the richest province of the Mughal Empire. The muslin of Dhaka is so fine that the British will call it woven wind. The rice paddies feed millions. The rivers are highways. The Portuguese, the Dutch, and the British are all trading in Hughli and the wealth is extraordinary.
Commemorates the victims of the 1944 Thiaroye massacre, when Senegalese soldiers who had fought for France in World War II were shot by their own officers for demanding their back pay. The massacre at the Thiaroye camp is a wound in Senegalese history that defines the relationship between Senegal and its former colonizer. The film Camp de Thiaroye by Ousmane Sembene brought the massacre to global attention.