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This paper takes a first look at spoken and written language practices in Marché Centenaire, Dakar's Chinese market, in order to explore the ways in which Chinese merchants first established a tenuous belonging in the market.
Pidgins are ways of speaking born of necessity in interactions between strangers whose linguistic repertoires have little or no overlap. This paper explores the emergence of a pidgin in Dakar's Chinese market, Marché Centenaire. Beginning in the late 1990s, a new type of small-scale entrepreneurial migration from China took root in Senegal, and by the early to mid-2000s the Chinese presence in the city had diversified from that of the engineers and manual laborers who worked on large, Chinese government funded building projects to include a modest merchant class whose collective businesses have made the name Centenaire synonymous with the Chinese market. This paper takes a first look at language practices, both spoken and written, within the Centenaire market to explore the ways in which Chinese merchants first established a tenuous belonging in the market.