To get to the presidential palace, take avenue Georges-Pompidou, leave rue de Reims on your right, go past rue Carnot, Félix-Faure, Jules-Ferry, then turn left and you have arrived, an app could guide you GPS. The driver would then not be in Paris… but in Dakar.
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In the Plateau district, if we trust the names of the streets, history is frozen. Sixty-five years after the independence of Senegal, the political and administrative center of the capital remains crisscrossed with names from colonization. Colonial administrators and governors, frigate captains, but also French writers and doctors cover 60% of this piece of the peninsula with their names, according to a study published in 2019.
-But not for long. After demanding the departure of French soldiers still present on Senegalese soil, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye called in mid-December to rename certain streets to rename them in honor of “national heroes”. He instructed his prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, to create a National Council for Memory and Historical Heritage Management.
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