On my recent trips there, I realized how much I was longing to reconnect with my roots, my extended family, my childhood memories, and, most importantly, to give my children the opportunity to learn and grow closer to our culture.

So I visited an undeveloped area close to my family’s village. The emotions did the rest : I bought a plot of land near the ocean, south of Dakar, and decided I was going to build a small house that my kids and I, my family, and my friends could use as our African home base.

I have made my initial journey from Senegal to France, to the US, and now I am doing the return trip in the opposite order, with my kids in tow. Life is as beautiful as it is unpredictable.
But Villa Siga Fall is not just any house it embodies so much of who I am.
Back to me living the American dream adventure for a second.

While there, I started as an intern in the hardwood flooring industry, then became a valuable employee for a rapidly expanding flooring company in the San Francisco area, and finally graduated to opening my own business as a hardwood flooring specialist and consultant.

The beginning was challenging, to say the least, but my hard work and perseverance paid off. My business grew year after year, and I was twice recognized as an outstanding woman entrepreneur by the American National Hardwood Association in a male-dominated industry.

So to say that wood flooring and wood, in general, define me best professionally is an understatement.
Not to mention that I am also deeply passionate about it.