Mimi Mollica

Dakar has become a huge, surreal “development” site in Senegal, forcing the question: Are the inhabitants being crushed and swept away by this complex transition or are they slowly taking possession of the new space?

What drives us to leave our homes and seek our fortunes abroad? Sicilian photographer Mimi Mollica returned to his roots to confront the suffocating stranglehold that the Mafia has held over his beautiful motherland for decades.

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