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DAKAR—Apart from figuring out every method possible to prepare a banana, learning the myriad ways one can eat a mango or a grapefruit, discovering the custard apple, and having a ten-minute game of circumlocution/charades with the man at my favorite fruit stand only to learn that clementine in French, is, brace yourself…clementine, I have learned in the last three months here in Dakar how to eat around the bowl.
