y THE PRIZE WAS a seven­ day, all expense paid trip for the seven writers-with one guest each-to the West African nation of Senegal. . Holding the beautiful baby girl wrapped in foul' layers of elabo- TRADE AND CO R E is vel)' much part of their liv inside and outside ofth village. Clusters of people line the newly-paved highway north to Dakar. Many are selling and/or buying mangoes, oranges, ba­ nanas and coconuts, among other produce. This makes for a busy, colorful and noisy marketplace that stretches for miles. Dakar is a city in constant rno- OU E on Go Island' one of the m widely visited of about 50 la ho , or fo , till tanding in West Africa. It has long n a "must" for visiting Black Ameri­ cans. Few persons are not affected by the physical reminders of the imprisonment, the break-up of families th pain and th suffer­ ing that began for many in these waterfron prisons. I saw th mall pa where my an to had been packed in large groups for months at a time. I saw where they had been crammed into cells eight and a half feet wide with light and air­ slits too narrow for my fingers to pass through . I saw a room with plenty of Younou s N'Gouf, center, u her young married ,Christopher and Adrianne George-Bourn , Into the naming ceremony for hi one-week old granddaughter, Anta, whom Mrs. George-Bourne hold in her arms. The couple, from Springfield, Va., were among a group of African-American univer ity stud nt who recently won the national e ay conte t. rately-woven cloth, and sleeping peacefully throughout most of her official introduction to the world, I 'was led by Mr. N'Gouf to the front of the f tive crowd during my first evening in Senegal. We felt at home with the Wolof tion. Speeding Peugeots and Renaults slow down to make room for small herds of cattle, goats and heep, further illustrat­ ingthecontrastbetw n the mod­ .em "Paris of Africa" and. its far larger rural surroundings. light where slaves could be in­ spected-head, body, arms, Ie like horses or cattle. They had been inspected by slave-buy­ ers who could, if they wanted, hide behind curtains so they would not be observed purchasing Election analysis shows that Blacks and Puerto Ricans gave Dinkins his only solid backing while only 25 percent of whites cast ballots for the one-term Black mayor. T HEAD 0 the city's Community Service Society, David R. Jones, put the gen­ eral views of Blacks this way: "Anyone who denies there was a strong racial component (to 'the Dinkins' defeat) is living in a dream world. In order to gain the statusofa political party, the Rainbow Coalition would have to collect 15,000 signatur ,run a candidate for governor and then have that candidate re­ ceive at least 50,000 votes. ew NEW YORK, NY-Black political leaders in New York have begun exploring the possi­ bility of forming a new political party in the wake of the rent el tion defeat of New York City's first Black mayor, David Dinkins. Theefforti ingpushed by political activist Rev. AI Sharpton and state senator' David Paterson. Reportedly, the new party would be formed und r the banner of Rev. J J ack­ son's Rainbow Coalition. City Blacks are charging racism in the I of D mocratic incum nt inkins to publican Rudolph Giuliani in a city where D mocrats outnum­ ber Republicans by 5-to-l. Th even wlnn r of the es y writing conte t pau e t the main patio of th lave hou eon Sen gal' Goree I land. Accompanying the wlnn r on the one-week. all exp nse -paid trip, are their gu sts, Pepsi-Cola officials and local guide . The winners were all African-American university students. ..... . . . ..... , ., , .t. , ," ..,. , , : I 'Ht. • 1''1', 11 y,u'd f» • • Th e s s t ud n t s r'pr's n t t h e . Iir. I raduating c la s: 01 t h e Th u rg ood 1\\ r. h II Scholar. hi Fund. I d i 'al 'lighl' I -t ud -n t s Ind.I.\ III '.til" lIpportin, Ih' I ',lCll·r. 01 t o m o rro « CI\ • 10 t h o Thul "HId .\\,\,.;..h.dl Sl hol,1! "hlJ) I:uncl. IIF II R(,( )1) '\R'-,II \II S 1101 \R'-,IIIP Fl 1>. Pti Yo (II h t\:1 \101 PO\\I R. 1IIIIuII.I,.II"" 1""',.1111111Itl'fn""'" •. tll'd:! ;,-,,,;, \\""'" ""cI,I"""H'" '" I hu, �oo,1 .\\.11 h.III�, h"I.1I 111)' h,nd. 1'"" ,. ,.', l .. ·11II·'. I' () II" ;'1'1"2 \\ , Ill" '''n. 1 ) (' "oln ..