2024-07-04
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It may not look like much anymore,
but in its heyday La Chaumière was the premier nightclub in all Saint-Louis,
recalls Cheikh Badian.
When the tide was low,
the long beach extending far into the distance was wide enough for crowds to gather for football matches on the sand.
But in recent years, the aging fisherman says, so many catastrophes have happened.
La Chaumière is closed.
The Quranic school along the waterfront is no more.
A few years ago, during a particularly terrible flood,
a house next to a mosque collapsed, killing the carpenter who lived there.
These days, when the storm surge comes,
the waters go all the way to the war memorial, a couple of hundred metres inland.
Inch by inch, home by home, Saint-Louis is being washed into the sea.
A crowded island city built among waterways, Senegal's former colonial capital,
dubbed the Venice of Africa,