VISIT DAKAR

A CAPITAL THAT ARGUES IN INSTITUTIONS Gorée, Senghor, thieboudienne, and a government debating who pays for the adjustment. (pp. 74 to 76) Portrait Dakar occupies a peninsula on the westernmost point of the African mainland, with the Atlantic on three sides and the light that has drawn photographers here since independence. It is a city of roughly four million people, the seat of Senegal’s government, and the cultural capital of Francophone West Africa. A visitor can walk its plateau in an afternoon — ministries, banks, colonial-era facades standing beside post-independence architecture, the Presidential Palace and the Place de l’Independance at the centre of it...