Visual "Literature" in Urban Senegal

Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts

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Visual “Literature” in Urban Senegal

Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts

Pape Samb left rural Senegal as a ten-year-old orphan, traveling to the capital city of Dakar. He has spent the last forty years there, in a fishing village squeezed between factory yards in the portside industrial park of Belaire. Samb has remained single, and his tiny one-room shack has just enough space for his hammock.

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