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I have to wonder where this land (possibly an entire region) would come from Being a cynical bastard, my guess would be Casamance. There's a separatist movemen
by quant18 17y ago
I have to wonder where this land (possibly an entire region) would come from
Being a cynical bastard, my guess would be Casamance. There's a separatist movement down there with close ties to Gambia, so the Senegalese government's probably trying to dilute their influence by diluting their demographics --- bringing in Francophone immigrants who are completely clueless about local society (and thus dependent on the central government at first).
Ironically this is the same strategy that Rafael Trujillo used to strengthen the Dominican Republic's border with Haiti back in his day. [1]
[1] E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_settlement_in_the_Dominican_Republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_settlement_in_the_Domi...
- rokhayakebe 17y agoI doubt it. Casamance is the most fertile part of the region, but unless Haitian are used to working the land, it will not work so well for them. There is plenty of land in Senegal. There are only 2 problems: 1) If you want to live near the beach, then you have to move 30-45 minutes outside the capital, 2) There is not much infrastructure inland to accelerate growth for a newly formed region.