Dakar’s growing surf community reconnects young people to their city against the migrant crisis

Two Dakar surf instructors, Pape Fode and Baye Seydi, build a surf school offering local youth joy, discipline and a future at home instead of the perilous crossing to Europe.

A luminous portrait of surfing as a lifeline for Senegalese youth facing the pull of migration.

As a force that shapes daily life, identity, and uncertainty in Dakar, the Atlantic Ocean has become a source of escapism for friends Pape Fode and Baye Seydi – two local surf instructors reinforcing community among the

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