Senegal Edition
World Home Threshold Day leads today's complete edition for Senegal.
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A day for the doors, mats, shoes, keys, steps, and greetings that mark the passage between the world and home.
Celebrates the baobab tree, known in Wolof as buuri, which is central to Senegalese life. The fruit, called monkey bread, is used to make bouye, a tangy drink sold on every street corner in Dakar. The leaves are used in cooking, the bark for rope, and the hollow trunk sometimes serves as a shelter or burial site. Villages across the Casamance and the Saloum Delta hold ceremonies honoring the tree that some communities believe houses spirits.