A Groundnut Western?

Senegal is considering building a rail line that would pass through Casamance, inspiring Blog Politique du Senegal (Fr) to imagine a new kind of Western involving a train heist and a wagon car complete with saloon girls, an upright piano, poker and a bar brawl, with the Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) in the role of the Mexican bandits and the Senegalese army, the American calvary.

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