BUALA

Dakar's Cine-suburb: Young people create a cine-club in Pikine.

Dakar became overpopulated towards the beginning of the fifties. A displacement of families away from the inner city neighbourhoods was decided by the colonial state: they were truly "evictions" framed within urban planning projects. The Pikine department was created, regrouping "all of Dakar's excluded". Today it accounts for about one million persons: there is talk about "Pikine-Peking".

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14.04.2010 | by Rosa Spaliviero