Introduction:
The Sayerr Jobe Avenue (also spelt Sayer) starts from Westfield Junction,
Serrekunda, and carries up
towards the market and up towards Bambo and Tipper Garage.
Street Side:
Close to the enclosed market at the intersection of Mosque Road and Sayerr Jobe
Avenue, every foot of kerbside space is very often taken up by small traders
and shoppers, and every bit of road is congested with cars, bicycles,
wheelbarrows, and yet more shoppers.
Further south east you will come across numerous barber hair
stylist shops with often humorous
hand-painted billboards depicting a few of the current styles,
furniture workshops where craftsmen put together intricately designed bridal beds, and
ironmongery shops, with lines of alluminium ladles and heaps of
shining
cooking pots, roughly moulded in the traditional way.
Currently in August 2008 the road has been partially graded to get
rid off the former pot-holes however, this now means a lot more
red-dust permeating the air.
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Souvenir Shopping:
Near each other on the avenue are two quality craft shops - Art
Collections and the Samory Touray Timbucktoo Bead and Mask Shop (tel:
9919116).
They sell contemporary and antique
carvings, beads, masks, bronze statues, drums,
and textiles from all over West Africa such as the bogolan
mud cloth
which originates from Mali.
There is also one other place worth visiting and that is
Karamo Art (tel : 9900086). karamoart@hotmail.com
Photo credits:
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