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Senegal Semester: Youth Leadership, Arts & Culture (6 Weeks)

Senegal Semester: Youth Leadership, Arts & Culture (6 Weeks)

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Experience one of the most vibrant and welcoming countries in the world. Connect with inspiring artists, local youth movements, and diverse community members. This six-week gap semester in Senegal is for students interested in exploring an artistic craft or skill, working with Senegalese youth, and gaining exposure to complex social and environmental challenges and solutions. Through immersive community travel and local mentorship, we come to understand how youth leaders are creating change for their country and draw inspiration for how we might do so in our own communities. Throughout our time in Senegal, we dive into the arts by studying under master artisans and musicians or exploring other topics under the mentorship of community leaders.

Program Highlights

Learn about the history of the Atlantic slave trade firsthand at the Island of Goree, and engage with local youth activists and artists who are creatively wresting with complex histories.

Visit an artisanal gold mine in Kedougou and study how the hunt for precious metals and resources impacts the environment and draws migrants.

Trek across lush rolling hills in southern Senegal and visit indigenous communities fighting for cultural survival and for the preservation of their languages and traditions.

Immerse yourself in multiple homestays from rural villages to more urban settings.

Experience Senegalese "teranga" (hospitality) during homestays.