“I wish I had at least seen his body,” Ms. Diouf said. One day, I was out in the sea fishing and I really thought I saw him pass by. In 2015, she used a grant from U.N. Women Senegal to build a farm to grow mussels, providing work for about 100 women. Ms. Diouf says that after Alioune’s death she felt drawn to the sea and began thinking of leaving her office job to fish. “I told them, ‘That’s fine — I already went through menopause,’” said Ms. Diouf, who is herself Lebu.

Source: New York Times March 12, 2021 12:22 UTC