Do West Africans have particular reason to help Haitians?

Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade is telling Haitians they are welcome to come and live in West Africa, and ‘return to their roots’. Do you agree that a connection remains several centuries since slaves were transported from Africa to the Caribbean? If you’re in west Africa would you be glad to see Haitians arrive?

Is public art worth the money?

It’s called African Renaissance, it towers over the Senegalese capital of Dakar, taller than the Statue of Liberty.

When it’s officially dedicated at a ceremony in the next few weeks, the country’s President wants it to symbolise the new aspirations of the younger generation.