DEMBÉ MARKET

It is even more popular than the central market. As it is eccentric, prices are lower, and the compact crowd of the poorest presses display displays, each in search of the rare pearl, trying to avoid small itinerant sellers, some offering four combs and two towels or candy and cigarettes. Shoe cireurs offer their services to the few moccasins of leather. They earn their income mainly by retapant old shoes, thereby avoiding their owners buying a new and expensive pair. A few young boys, to glean their food, tend their begging to passers-by. Undoubtedly, the Dembé market is an interesting sample of this African country…