Living under a cannon on Senegal's Gorée island

Name: Living under a cannon on Senegal's Gorée island
Uploaded: 2017-08-11T23:20:05.000Z
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Description: Not having any electricity is a pain, Massar Mbodj says of his home on Gorée, Senegal's "slave island".

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Massar Mbodj lives in a bunker under a cannon on Gorée island, off the coast of Senegal, which was a centre for slave trading for more than 300 years.

Video journalists: Arwa Barkallah and Raissa Ioussouf

Africa

12 August 2017