by Kenneth Mok | Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Wednesday August 13 After two eventful months in Senegal, I will fly home to New Jersey from Dakar tonight. I finished my fieldwork with a total of 88 survey responses and in the next month or two, I will analyze my data to draw conclusions about the current political...
by Kenneth Mok | Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Monday August 11 I have just returned from my last weekend here in Senegal, the best weekend I have had on the trip and one of the most interesting weekends of my life. For the last three days, I accompanied my research assistant, Macodou, to his hometown city, Thiès,...
by Kenneth Mok | Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Thursday August 7 In my last post, I laid out several challenges that I have faced during my surveying such as respondents’ lack of time, willingness, or the appropriate qualifications. After the last couple days of surveying, those negatives hold true but the...
by Kenneth Mok | Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
MONDAY AUGUST 4 After another week of surveying youth in neighborhoods, I have thus far collected 57 responses. The most recent area I surveyed is Pikine, a sprawling and populous suburb of Dakar that holds about 800,000 people. Although clearly neglected and desolate...
by Kenneth Mok | Jul 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Wednesday July 23rd marked my second week out of the hospital and my fifth week into the trip. It was also my first day of fieldwork, an accumulation of six months of preliminary research, two months of editing a survey, one month of talking with Senegalese political...
