PIKINE, Senegal — On Senegal's peninsula, just west of Dakar, is a neighborhood that attracts hundreds of the country's most gifted musicians, artists and creatives. They all meet at Africulturban, a ...

Senegalese men ask all the questions they don’t dare bring up in public at a so-called ‘School of Husbands’ that’s trying to ...

PIKINE, Senegal — Mouhamed Sall stepped to the chalkboard with a glance and quick question in sign language to an assistant. Then he solved the exercise to the silent approval of his classmates, who ...

Shop signs written in both English and French, men and women dressed in traditional boubou garments, chefs cooking up fish stew while chatting with customers in Wolof—one is reminded of Dakar, the ...

Babacar Niang, known as Matador, raps at a recording studio at Africulturban's center in Pikine, Senegal. (Ricci Shryock for NPR) PIKINE, Senegal — On Senegal's peninsula, just west of Dakar, is a ...

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