Eid al-Adha is the largest religious holiday of the year in much of West Africa.
The religious festival is locally known as Tabaski in Senegal. It’s when Muslims kill and eat a sheep, making the animal extremely sought after in the days before the holiday.
Families save for months in advance to buy a sheep to be slaughtered to commemorate the Quranic tale of Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail as an act of obedience to…
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