Senegal
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Senegal, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- Mali's Independence and the Collapse of the Mali Federation (Article)
- Ndate Yalla Mbodj, the Last Great Queen of Waalo (Article)
- Senegal Becomes the First African Team to Beat England (Article)
- Trump's July 2025 White House Summit With Five West African Leaders (Article)
- Cheikh Anta Diop and the Contested Question of Ancient Egypt's Race (Article)
- Afrique sur Seine: The 1955 Film That Began Sub-Saharan African Cinema (Article)
- Gorée Island's 'Door of No Return': What Historians Actually Dispute (Article)
- Saint-Louis: The Island City That Ruled Three French Colonies (Article)
- Senegal's Unmatched Record of Coup-Free Governance in West Africa (Article)
- The Senegambia Confederation: A Union That Died in Seven Years (Article)
From the Archive
- BREAKING: Trump is trying to dump US migrants and asylum seekers in Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon and…
- Senegal has become the first African country to beat England in a football match. The Senegalese Lions trou…
- Senegal held a presidential election following months of anti-government protests over a delayed vote. (2024)
- By the way, in year 2022, the currency of these our African countries are still being printed by France: 🇧…
- BREAKING: Senegal 🇸🇳 are winners of the Africa Cup of Nations! It's their first AFCON in 16 times they've…
- Countries with the cheapest cost to purchase 1 Gigabyte of mobile data in Africa: Sudan 🇸🇩 - 27 cents (US…
- For foreign companies trying to invest in Africa, the possibility of being asked for a bribe by a foreign p…
- Today we celebrate Dr Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian/physicist who studied human race origins. His…
- The city of Dakar, Senegal, in 1963. Of West Africa's 16 countries, this city is the only West African capi…
- Engineering students in Senegal are busy inventing devices to combat the coronavirus such as automatic sani…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- Nigeria has the worst police in the world, followed by DRC, Kenya and Uganda, says the World Internal Secur…
- Lionel Messi, FIFA's Men's Best Player of the Year, nominated Sadio Mane of Senegal/Liverpool FC as his fir…
- Latest FIFA Rankings—Top 20 African countries Senegal🇸🇳20th Tunisia🇹🇳29 Nigeria🇳🇬33 Algeria🇩🇿40th M…
- Most of our brothers and sisters across the Atlantic—The United States, South America, and the Caribbean—an…
- 15/2/1961 — Ceremonies commemorating the death of 🇨🇩PM, Patrice Lumumba, in Accra, Ghana, led by Presiden…
- 90 years before French women became citizens of 🇫🇷, Queen Ndaté Yalla Mbodj already had one of Africa's s…
- Yesterday was International Happiness Day, hence the UN released the 2019 World Happiness Report. The 10 mo…
- Corruption in Public sector measured in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018). 1 Seychelles 2 Botswana 3 Cabo Verde 4 R…
- #Diasporadiaries Manchester City's Leroy Sane's dad was a Senegalese national football team striker. Stars…
- These are the African countries with the highest number of active tech hubs: South Africa 🇿🇦 59 Nigeria �…
- Of the 16 countries in West Africa, only Senegal has never witnessed a coup d'etat since independence.
- Take a look at the great city and people of Dakar, Senegal's capital, as far back as 1943.
- Africa's 10 fastest growing economies as at November 2017. 1. Côte d’Ivoire 2. Tanzania 3. Senegal 4. Djibo…
- Egypt, Senegal and Angola are our current representatives at the United Nations Security Council.
- Senegalese legend, Youssou N'Dour, wrote and performed the Official Anthem of France '98 World Cup (with Ax…
- Saint-Louis, Senegal, capital of French West Africa (1872 - 1902); capital of Senegal and Mauritania (1872…
- There's a pink-colored Lake in Senegal, Lake Retba (or Lac Rose). Each litre of water has about 380 grams o…
- The 1,200 bubble houses in Dakar, Senegal, 1953; formed by inflating large bubbles and forming concrete aro…
- The African Renaissance, a 49m high bronze statue outside Dakar, Senegal, is the tallest statue on Earth ou…
- In 2013 the World Economic Forum listed Senegal as the 6th friendliest country in the world.
- The city of Dakar, Senegal.
- Bertin Nahum, born in Senegal, invented the revolutionary ROSA™ robot that helps surgeons with acute precis…
- Coach, NYC FC & Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira, was born in Dakar, Senegal on 23/06/76. Left for France when…
- Senegal's anti-apartheid stamps issued in 1986/1987.
- Some Classic, timeless books by our first presidents. J. Nyerere (Tanzania) K. Nkrumah (Ghana) L. Senghor (…
- Siem Bene M’Bokolo of Senegal, (b. 1906) was until his death (8/18/2014) Africa’s last surviving World War…
- Malcolm X in 1959 & 1964 visited Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Sudan, Senegal, Liberia…
- Chimpanzees, Human's closest relative - sharing 98.7% of our DNA - are found in tropical Africa from Senega…
- “Banana,” “jazz,” “jive,” “yam” are of Wolof origin. Wolof is a Niger-Congo language spoken mostly in Seneg…