Muslim Senegal Celebrates Christmas

After his morning prayers at the mosque, 25-year-old Mamadou Aliou Ba puts on his Santa suit, the padded belly protruding from his thin, tall frame, and goes to work. He stands proudly, smiling from behind a snowy white mustache and beard that take over his face, waving to families walking by the supermarket in one of Dakar's wealthier neighborhoods. Ba is one of many Pères Noel, or Father Christmases, seen in Senegal's capital this festive season. He, like the majority of...

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