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The seaside highway, one of the Senegalese president`s bold building initiatives, winds past the scruffy shop where a 62-year-old tailor and his two sons eke out a living sewing scraps of cloth into curtains. It`s a beautiful highway _ no doubt about it, says Barry Mamadou. "But I can`t eat the road," he says, explaining why, having twice voted for President Abdoulaye Wade, he is now siding with ...