"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

Architect Carole Diop leads a tour of Dakar’s historical buildings, to highlight the danger to the architectural treasures now endangered by the Senegalese capital's growing appetite for construction.

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