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.”
Architects race to save historic buildings in Senegal’s capital
