What makes Dakar’s creative environment so dynamic, notes Senegalese artist Alun Be, is how gallerists and curators are breaking down the white-wall concept of exhibiting art and instead ...

Dakar, Senegal — In a quiet corner of Medina Gounass ... but as raw material for creativity and sustainability. For example, old car tyres can be transformed into chairs, while plastic bottles ...

Is Senegal’s Akon City an impossible dream? A futuristic city with atypical architecture, immersed in high-tech and propelled by solar energy and the crypto-currency launched by musician Akon, Akon ...

Senegalese leaders have long dreamed of building a new urban center amid mounting congestion and overcrowding in the capital city of Dakar ... Although Senegal's economy is growing at around ...