AFKTravel recently launched a series called ‪#‎InLoveWithAfrica‬, which comprises a series of “love letters” to various African destinations, written by travel writers who are passionate about the continent.

In this installment, Kate Thomas tells just how much there is to love about Dakar: “The breezy ferry to Ile de Goree, with its disputed slave-trading history and colorful colonial houses draped in bougainvillea. The French boulangeries and patisseries that still bake cakes popular in the 1970s. The men dressed in spectacular, silky boubous kneeling for peaceful prayer at the side of the road.”

Click here to read the article on AFKTravel.com.