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  • In the nearby fishing port of Joal, local fish mongers and fisherman shared anecdotes of how fishing stocks had changed during the past few decades.

    West Africa Explores Ways to Mitigate Climate Change's Effects 2011

  • Another fisherman said in 1965, there were only five to 10 boats off Joal's coast, but now there are hundreds of them casting thousands of nets.

    West Africa Explores Ways to Mitigate Climate Change's Effects 2011

  • The organization sent them to Senegal, where they landed in Joal, a city of 38,000 people.

    Second Acts Kristi Essick 2010

  • "The genius of quintessential [John] Hughes is that the movies are impossible not to take personally," writes Joal Ryan, reviewing Don't You Forget About Me, a collection of essays.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 2/19. 2007

  • Born in Joal, a tiny coastal village of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor grew up a member of Serers tribe, a minorty tribe among the Wolofs.

    Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008

  • Like Father Cloarec's, crucified on a boulder by the Joal pagans

    Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008

  • He, the child of Joal, who had been cradled by the rhapsodies of Griots said: “We are cultural half-breeds, and if we feel “in Black”, we express ourselves in French, because French is a language of universal vocation that addresses our message as much too the French as to others”.

    Africa "Outside" History? President Sarkozy's infamous speech in Dakar, July 2007 Marian 2008

  • [81] It is perhaps significant that many colors are especially liable to produce skin disorders, especially urticaria; a number of cases have been recorded by Joal, _Journal de Médecine_, July 10, 1899.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Passengers also will be able to visit Joal Fadiouth, a Senegalese fishing village partly set on a shell-covered island, and the Gambia National Museum in Banjul, the capital.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • We shall only mention as among the principal points to be occupied, with the _mornes_ of Cape Rouge, Portudal, Joal, and Cahone, this last on the river Salum near the Gambia; they are large villages, the environs of which are covered with magnificent forests, and the soil of which is perhaps the most fertile of any in Africa.

    Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny 1818

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