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What the Peace Corps meant to me

Monitor correspondent Nick Roll attends a 2018 taping of a radio show by a Senegalese journalist visiting the health post where he worked while serving in the Peace Corps in Dya, Senegal.

It wasn’t until I returned home from the Peace Corps that I noticed the eatery down the street from my house. The white sign read “Darou Salaam Restaurant.” Like many Senegalese restaurants trying to make it in America, it promises “African food” and “food from all over the world.” It eschews the specificity of a West African country most

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