Victoria Kim
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/ 11 August 2006

West Africans look to internet love to escape

At an internet café in Senegal’s capital Dakar, a Senegalese woman skims through men’s online profiles, zeroes in on a thirtysomething Canadian and says hello. A few computers down, a young man browses through photos of foreign women. They’re looking for friends, conversations and possible romance just like internet chat users anywhere else.