The Star

Senegal baskets are hot, but women weavers ask where's the money?

Women weaving Senegalese handicraft baskets in Mborine. Replicas of their popular creations can be found in many places around the world, which is unfortunate. — Photos: AFP Under the shade of a large ...
Post and Courier

Basket weaving endures from African tool to American art

Looping strips of palmetto fronds through coiled sweetgrass is slow poison. Squinting in concentration ruins the eyes, forcing a nail bone through the grass wrecks the hands and bending over the ...
SF Weekly

Senegal baskets are hot, but women weavers ask where's the money?

Under the shade of a large mango tree in her sandy courtyard in a village in northwest Senegal, Khady Sene rhythmically threads together reeds, the beginning of a new basket. She and nearly a dozen ...
Digital Journal

Senegal baskets are hot, but women weavers ask where’s the money?

Khady Sene, 35, who stands with a shipment of baskets destined for Denmark, says she has been weaving 'since I was born' - Copyright AFP NICOLAS REMENE Khady Sene, 35 ...
The Taipei Times

Senegal baskets are hot, but women weavers ask, where’s the money?

Under the shade of a large mango tree in her sandy courtyard in a village in northwest Senegal, Khady Sene rhythmically threads together reeds, the beginning of a new basket. She and nearly a dozen ...