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Dakar sounds like a nightmare, but you might want to revisit Miami, which you mentioned as another hell hole.
I have been in and out of Miami about 30 times over the last three years and have always found it OK. They have been making constant renovations in all this time, both in the roads approaching the airport and in the terminal.
Check-ins are speedy, immigration and customs are nearly always a five minute walk through--even if you do have to walk about half a mile from the gates to get there (with some people mover belts en route).
Salsafied it may be, but at least there are a couple of Cuban restaurants where you can get something palatable, even if a lot of space is given over to dreadful fast food franchises. You can get a decent cup of coffee (where else in the US?) and the bean soups at the cafeteria are not bad. Not cheap, of course, but then what is?
Staff are generally helpful in either language--English or Spanish--and I can't say I have ever had a bad trip through there.
