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 ...

City workers prepare food aid kits in a distribution center in Pikine, Senegal, on April 28, 2020. The Senegalese government on Tuesday launched a food aid distribution operation to help 1 million ...

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 ...

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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In 2005, heavy rains flooded neighborhoods around Dakar, Senegal, forcing tens of thousands of people out of their homes. It was the worst downpour in decades and Babacar Niang, a rapper also known as ...