With, as its point of departure, an ethnography focusing on different forms of clandestine prostitution in Dakar, this paper argues that, inherent in these forms of selling the self, and therefore essential to their study, are trajectories of extraversion to which they are linked and which they bring into being. At the heart of the argument presented is a hypothesis of ongoing extraversion – of a continuum thereof – which stands in contradistinction to notions of migratory rupture. Via this approach, the paper considers close links between practices of the self in a given African setting and desire(s) to migrate away from this same setting. A key focus, here, is thus extraversion considered as a mode of subjectivation.