Sicap-Liberté is one of the 19 districts of Dakar (Communes d’arrondissement du Sénégal). The cities of Sicap-Liberté were erected as borough communes in 1996. The commune became urbanized from the end of the 1950s with the construction of the six districts from 1958 to 1973 under the aegis of the Cape Verde Real Estate Company whose acronym SICAP gives its name to the locality (Société immobilière du CapVert)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..