New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

You see a lot of these pastel-colored buildings in Dakar. Sokhamon is in a neighborhood that I really love called Plateau, in the historic heart of Dakar, filled with colonial-era buildings ...

The driver would then not be in Paris ... but in Dakar. In the Plateau district, if street names are anything to go by, history has stood still. Sixty-five years after the independence of Senegal ...