Senegal: Finding Opportunities Through Cheap Chinese Goods

27 August 2007

Dakar — Allées du Centenaire, a neighbourhood in the heart of Senegal's capital Dakar, may be lacking the trademark red lanterns but in the eyes of locals it is fast becoming the city's unofficial Chinatown.

The area consists of a double row of houses of which the front sides have been transformed into shops. Chinese traders live in these homes-cum-shops, selling cheap goods imported from their home country to local petty traders.

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