Hundreds of swimmers have been taking part in a race between the Senegalese capital, Dakar and Goree Island.
But it’s no ordinary competition. It involves swimming five kilometres to a former slave port, where Africans were once sold and shipped off to slavery in the Americas. The race is a tribute to slavery’s victims who remained defiant and tried to swim, often in chains, for freedom.
Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from Dakar.
Hundreds swim to former Senegal slave island in annual race
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