Architects race to save historic buildings in Senegal’s capital


Dakar (AFP) – Architect Carole Diop leads a tour of Dakar’s historical buildings, to highlight the danger to the architectural treasures now endangered by the Senegalese capital’s growing appetite for construction. “The price of a square metre is around 3,000 euros,” she says. “Buildings, even those of historic value, are worth less than the land on which they stand.”

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