Shopping in Africa
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Sandgrouse Market
Sandgrouse Market slightly further east, is the place for interesting food, much of it sold live.
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Jankara Market
Jankara Market is the largest market in Lagos and sells everything from tie-dyed cloth, trade beads and jewellery to pirate cassettes, pottery and clothing. There is also a fetishes market where you can buy herbs, traditional medicines and juju potions and powders.
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Balogun Market
The rambling maze of Balogun Market is excellent for clothes and fabric from across West Africa.
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Leader Price Supermarché
Supermarket.
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La Ponte
In the centre, around Marché Ganhi, are a number of good supermarkets, including La Ponte.
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Waterside Market
The chaotic and colourful Waterside Market offers almost everything for sale, including some attractive textiles (which are sold by the lapa, or 2m).
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LIM
Wander through the rooms admiring the stylish, pared-back selection of homewares, including fashion accessory items made from buckskin.
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Sono Mondiale
This brilliant little shop has a better selection than some of the music shops in Dakar. It has a good variety of African (and not only Senegalese) music on offer - both on CD and cassette - and, oddly, a quirky vinyl collection of old salsa.
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Libre-Service
For European goods and French wine, head for the Libre-Service.
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Keur Fall
On a nicely brushed-up ground floor of one of the old buildings, Keur Fall sells a wide range of pretty children's and adult clothes, shoes and toys - all made by women in a nearby village and sold under fair-trade conditions.
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Ecomarché
The Ecomarché is a good spot for European goods and French wine.
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Ateliers d'Art
In the same building as Sono Mondiale, this is a great place to rummage for fabrics. You can even watch the weavers working on the gigantic, patterned cotton-rugs on sale here - and seeing the work that's involved in making them almost makes you willing to pay the steep prices charged for them.
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Taurus
Taurus, diagonally opposite BIM, stocks South African imports, meats and cheeses, plus soft serve ice cream.
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Spar Supermarket
This huge supermarket will sort out self-caterers.
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Phillipe Turpin's Studio
The sculptor and printmaker Philippe Turpin, who etches on copper and then rolls the prints off the inky plates, has a studio that is open to the public. Turpin captures the wonder of Réunion in a fantastical, almost medieval way; his renditions of the Cirques resemble illustrations of fairy kingdoms.
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Map Studio
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Supermarket
This large supermarket has imported European foods.
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Supermarché
The Supermarché carries all the desert essentials: water, toothpaste, lip balm, packaged soups, cookies, film, vodka and argan anti-cellulite lotion.
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Karoo Moon Country Store
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Julestones
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Coopérative de Tissage
At the Coopérative de Tissage, you can glimpse local women artisans at work on hanbels (locally woven carpets) and embroidered straw mats, and take one home at fixed prices of Dh550 to Dh750 per sq metre. Next door is the Ensemble Artisanal, the state-run showroom with stone carvings, pottery and woollen carpets woven by the region’s Ouzguita Berbers.
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Central Souq
Fresh cheese, meat and vegetables can be found at the daily central souq.
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Green Sleeves
Green Sleeves features a charming selection of retro, funky and vintage clothing; next door is a sister shop offering similar styles in furniture and homeware.
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Sonpark Centre
Has an internet cafe and a few restaurants.
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Riverside Mall
The biggest shopping centre is the glitzy Riverside Mall (about 5km north of town off Rte 40, with a wide range of stores) with various shops and ATM facilities.
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