Crossing Cultures

4. man in the double trousers/A man in Western-style clothes
6. who comes from the hinterland; in West African English, 'bushman'
9. African, of any nationality, who is part-poet, part-musician, part-sorcerer
10. us/It is the duty of the husband's sisters to buy his widow's mourning clothes
12. ndigale/Form of condolence that also expresses hope of moral recovery
14. river
15. villa/Building society in the Cap-Vert department of Senegal (Dakar and environs), which constructs houses for sale or rent
16. with supernatural powers
17. and stimulating powder
18. of the first source of the Koran, which has passed into general speech; the expression denotes surprise
19. of the Sine

1. friendship
2. food prepared from roughly kneaded millet flour, which is cooked in water and eaten with curds
3. linguere/A man of repute
5. on you three times/An invocation that indicates the seriousness of the subject to be discussed
7. of Dakar, capital of Senegal
8. every day/The statutory visit that every polygamous man must make to the bedroom of each of his wives in turn
11. drink prepared by mixing sugared curds with well kneaded millet flour; it is cooked in steam
13. companions