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Friends often ask me about the cost of living in Dakar. It depends a lot on how I choose to eat.FOOD. I generally buy western food imported from Europe and, sometimes, the US. I went grocery shopping today and bought the following.
1 box of breakfast cerealMy total bill was 17,110 cfa. Even at last week’s improving exchange rate of 450cfa/dollar, that’s $38.00!
2 large boxes of skim milk powder
2 boxes of fruit juice
4 fruit yogurts
If I consistently ate Senegalese style (mostly rice, with various vegetable or meat sauces very high in oil content), I could eat for about $3.00 per day.
FUEL. Today, I saw gasoline for sale at 798cfa per liter, diesel at 808cfa. That comes to $6.71/gallon for gas, $6.80/gallon for diesel. Most vehicles here use diesel.
I don’t often buy fuel. When I need to travel around town, I either take a taxi—$3.50 to $5.00 per trip, one way, depending on distance and traffic—or use a school vehicle and reimburse the school about 70 cents per mile.
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