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Wolof people, the Glossary

The Wolof people are a West African ethnic group found in northwestern Senegal, the Gambia, and southwestern coastal Mauritania.^[1]

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Abdallah Sima

Abdallah Dipo Sima (born 17 June 2001) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Senegal national team.

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Abdoulaye Faye

Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye (born 26 February 1978), known as Abdoulaye Faye, is a Senegalese former footballer who played as a defender.

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Abdoulaye Wade

Abdoulaye Wade (born 29 May 1926) is a French then Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012.

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Abdul Injai

Abdul Injai or Abdoul Ndaiye was a Senegalese mercenary in colonial Portuguese Guinea at the turn of the 20th century.

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African French (français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in 2023 or 51% of the French-speaking population of the world spread across 34 countries and territories.

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African textiles

African textiles are textiles from various locations across the African continent.

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Ahmadiyya

Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ) is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions.

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Alassane Diop (born 22 September 1997) is a Mauritanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zakho and the Mauritania national team.

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Alfred N'Diaye

Alfred John Momar N'Diaye (born 6 March 1990) is a professional footballer who plays for FC Noah as a defensive midfielder, who can also play as a centre back.

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Alvise Cadamosto

Alvise Cadamosto (surname cf. Ca' da Mosto, da Cadamosto, da Ca' da Mosto; also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto; mononymously Cadamosto)()(c. 1432 – 16 July 1483) was a Venetian explorer and slave trader, who was hired by the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator and undertook two known journeys to West Africa in 1455 and 1456, accompanied by the Genoese captain Antoniotto Usodimare.

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Amdy Faye

Amdy Moustapha Faye (born 12 March 1977) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and could also play as a centre back.

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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, born Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye (18 June 1793 – April or May 1870), also known as Anna Kingsley, Anta Majigeen Njaay or Anna Madgigine Jai, was a West African from present-day Senegal, who was enslaved and sold in Cuba, probably via the slave pens on Gorée Island.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.

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Banjul

Banjul ((US) and), officially the City of Banjul, is the capital of The Gambia.

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Battling Siki

Louis Mbarick Fall (16 September 1897 – 15 December 1925), known as Battling Siki, was a Senegalese light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912 to 1925, and briefly reigned as the World light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier.

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Bride price

Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.

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Cherif Ndiaye

Pape Cherif Ndiaye (born 23 January 1996) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serbian SuperLiga club Red Star Belgrade and the Senegal national team.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Colonisation of Africa

External colonies were first founded in Africa during antiquity.

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Compound (enclosure)

Compound, when applied to a human habitat, refers to a cluster of buildings in an enclosure, having a shared or associated purpose, such as the houses of an extended family (e.g. the Kennedy Compound for the Kennedy family).

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Dame N'Doye

Dame N'Doye (born 21 February 1985) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Decolonisation of Africa

The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War.

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Demba Thiam Ngagne (born 9 March 1998) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Italian club SPAL.

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DeSagana Diop

DeSagana N'gagne Diop (born 30 January 1982) is a Senegalese former professional basketball player who is head coach for the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League.

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Dialect

Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.

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Djibril Diop Mambéty

Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet.

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Dowry

A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.

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El Hadji Malick Diouf

El Hadji Malick Diouf (born 28 December 2004) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defender for Slavia Prague.

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Endogamy

Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fatou Khan

Fatou Khan, also Fatu or Fatoo (c.1880 - c.1940) was a Gambian administrator, who was an unofficial commissioner of the Gambia Colony and Protectorate.

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Firearm

A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French National Centre for Scientific Research

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.

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French West Africa

French West Africa (Afrique-Occidentale française, italic) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.

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Fula language

Fula,Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh also known as Fulani or Fulah (Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular; Adlam: 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞤪; Ajami: ࢻُلْࢻُلْدٜ, ݒُلَارْ, بُۛلَر), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 36.8 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stretches across some 18 countries in West and Central Africa.

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Gambia River

The Gambia River (formerly known as the River Gambra, French: Fleuve Gambie, Portuguese: Rio Gâmbia) is a major river in West Africa, running from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea westward through Senegal and The Gambia to the Atlantic Ocean at the city of Banjul.

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Georges Niang

Georges Niang (born June 17, 1993), nicknamed "The Minivan", is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Ghana Empire

The Ghana Empire (غانا), also known as simply Ghana, Ghanata, or Wagadou, was a West African classical to post-classical era western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali.

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Gorgui Dieng

Gorgui Sy Dieng (born January 18, 1990) is a Senegalese former professional basketball player currently working as a basketball operations representative with the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Griot

A griot (Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: ߖߋߟߌ, djeli or djéli in French spelling); kevel or kewel / okawul; gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician.

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I. M. Garba-Jahumpa

Ibrahima Muhammadu/Momodou Garba-Jahumpa (22 November 1912 - 4 September 1994) was a Gambian trade union leader and politician who served as the Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Health and Minister for Finance.

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Ibrahim Niass

Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975)—or Ibrahima Niasse, Ibrayima Ñas, شيخ الإسلامالحاج إبراهيمإبن الحاج عبد الله التجاني الكولخي Shaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh at-Tijānī al-Kawlakhī —was a Senegalese major leader (wolof) of the Tijānī Sufi order of Islam in West Africa.

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Idrissa Gueye

Idrissa Gana Gueye (born 26 September 1989) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for club Everton and the Senegal national team.

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Idrissa Thiam

Idrissa Thiam (born 2 September 2000) is a Mauritanian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Qatari club Mesaimeer.

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Imamate of Futa Toro

The Imamate of Futa Toro was a West African theocratic monarchy of the Fula-speaking people (Fulɓe and Toucouleurs) in the middle valley of the Senegal River, in the region known as Futa Toro.

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Ira M. Lapidus

Ira M. Lapidus is an Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at The University of California at Berkeley.

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Jihad

Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim.

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Jola people

The Jola or Diola (endonym: Ajamat) are an ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. Wolof people and Jola people are ethnic groups in Senegal and ethnic groups in the Gambia.

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Jollof rice

Jollof, or jollof rice, is a rice dish from West Africa.

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Jolof Empire

The Jolof Empire (امبراطورية جولوف), also known as Great Jolof, or the Wolof Empire, was a Wolof and Sereer confederacy state that ruled parts of West Africa situated in modern-day Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Mauritania from around the 12th century to 1549.

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Kara Mbodji

Serigne Modou Kara Mbodji (born 22 November 1989), commonly known as Kara or Kara Mbodji, is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays for the Senegal national team.

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Kingdom of Jolof

The Kingdom of Jolof (جولوف), also known as Wolof and Wollof, was a West African rump state located in what is today the nation of Senegal.

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Lamine Diack (born 15 November 2000) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for French club Nantes.

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Lebu people

The Lebu (Lebou, Lébou) are a subgroup of Wolof in Senegal, West Africa, living on the peninsula of Cap-Vert, site of Dakar. Wolof people and Lebu people are ethnic groups in Senegal and Muslim communities in Africa.

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Maissa Bigué Ngoné Fall

Maissa Bigué Ngoné Fall or Ma Isa Bige Ngone Fall or Ma Isa Begay Ngoneh Faal; other spelling: Isa Bige N'Gone was King of the Wolof Kingdom of Cayor, in what is now Senegal, during the 18th century.

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Mamadou Loum

Mamadou Loum N'Diaye (born 30 December 1996) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Porto, and the Senegal national team.

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Mamadou Niang

Mamadou Hamidou Niang (born 13 October 1979) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Mamor Niang

Mamor Niang (born 4 February 2002) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Melilla.

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Marabout

A marabout (lit) is a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (Arabic: سـيّد, romanized: sayyid and Sidi in the Maghreb) and a Muslim religious leader and teacher who historically had the function of a chaplain serving as a part of an Islamic army, notably in North Africa and the Sahara, in West Africa, and (historically) in the Maghreb.

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Mauritania

Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Mikayil Faye

Mikayil Ngor "Mika" Faye (born 14 July 2004) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Primera Federación club Barcelona Atlètic and the Senegal national team.

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Mouride

The Mouride brotherhood (yoonu murit, الطريقة المريدية aṭ-Ṭarīqat al-Murīdiyyah or simply المريدية, al-Murīdiyyah) is a large tariqa (Sufi order) most prominent in Senegal and The Gambia with headquarters in the city of Touba, which is a holy city for the order.

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Moussa Djitté

Moussa Kalilou Djitté (born 4 October 1999) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward.

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Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal

This is a list of Sufi orders (Tariqas) in Senegal and the Gambia.

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Ndaté Yalla Mbodj

Ndaté Yalla Mbodj, also known as Ndateh Yalla Mbooj (— 1860M'bayo, Tamba Eadric, African Interpreters, Mediation, and the Production of Knowledge in Colonial Senegal: The Lower and Middle Senegal Valley, Ca. 1850s to Ca. 1920s, Volume 2. Michigan State University. History (2009), p.

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New Imperialism

In historical contexts, New Imperialism characterizes a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Niger–Congo languages

Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Njembot Mbodj

Njembot Mbodj (or Njembot Mbooj or Njëmbët Mbooj, variations: Ndjeumbeut Mbodj or Djembet Mbodj, c. 1800 – 1846 or 1811—1846) was a Lingeer (Queen) of Waalo, a Sprecolonial kingdom which is now present-day Senegal.

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Nyamakala

The Nyamakala, or Nyamakalaw, are the historic occupational castes among Islamic societies of West Africa, particularly among the Mandinka people.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Oumar Ngom

Oumar Ngom (born 9 March 2004) is a professional footballer who plays for club Pau FC.

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Papa Bouba Diop

Papa Bouba Diop (28 January 197829 November 2020) was a Senegalese professional footballer.

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Papa Waigo

Papa Waigo N'Diaye (born 20 January 1984), often simplified as Papa Waigo, is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Pape Souaré

Pape N'Diaye Souaré (born 6 June 1990) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a left-back.

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Papy Djilobodji

El Hadji Papy Mison Djilobodji (born 1 December 1988) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Gaziantep F.K. and the Senegal national team.

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Peanut

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Portuguese colonization of the Americas

Portuguese colonization of the Americas constituted territories in the Americas belonging to the Kingdom of Portugal.

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Qadi

A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works.

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Sahel

The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.

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Salif Diao

Salif Alassane Diao (born 10 February 1977) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914): Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Senegal River

The Senegal River (Dexug Senegaal, Nahr as-Siniġāl, Fleuve Sénégal) is a river in West Africa; much of its length marks part of the border between Senegal and Mauritania.

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Senegambia

The Senegambia (other names: Senegambia region or Senegambian zone,Barry, Boubacar, Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade, (Editors: David Anderson, Carolyn Brown; trans. Ayi Kwei Armah; contributors: David Anderson, American Council of Learned Societies, Carolyn Brown, University of Michigan. Digital Library Production Service, Christopher Clapham, Michael Gomez, Patrick Manning, David Robinson, Leonardo A.

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Senegambian languages

The Senegambian languages, traditionally known as the Northern West Atlantic, or in more recent literature sometimes confusingly as the Atlantic languages, are a branch of Atlantic–Congo languages centered on Senegal, with most languages spoken there and in neighboring southern Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea.

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Serer language

Serer, often broken into differing regional dialects such as Serer-Sine and Serer saloum, is a language of the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo family spoken by 1.2 million people in Senegal and 30,000 in the Gambia as of 2009.

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Serer people

The Serer people are a West African ethnoreligious group. Wolof people and Serer people are ethnic groups in Mauritania, ethnic groups in Senegal and ethnic groups in the Gambia.

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Slave raiding

Slave raiding is a military raid for the purpose of capturing people and bringing them from the raid area to serve as slaves.

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Slavery in Africa

Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa.

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Sofiane Diop

Sofiane Daouda Diop (born 9 June 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Nice.

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Soninke people

The Soninke people are a West African Mande-speaking ethnic group found in Mali, southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea (especially Fouta Djallon). Wolof people and Soninke people are ethnic groups in Mauritania, ethnic groups in Senegal, ethnic groups in the Gambia and Muslim communities in Africa.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Sudan (region)

Sudan is the geographical region to the south of the Sahara, stretching from Western Africa to Central and Eastern Africa.

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Sufism

Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Tété

Tété is a French musician, born in Dakar, Senegal on 25 July 1975.

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The Gambia

The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa.

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Tijaniyyah

The Tijani order (translit) is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after Ahmad al-Tijani.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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West Atlantic languages

The West Atlantic languages (also the Atlantic languages"West Atlantic" is the traditional term, following Diedrich Hermann Westermann; "Atlantic" is more typical in recent work, particularly since Bendor-Samuel (1989), but is also used specifically for the northern branch of West Atlantic.

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Wolof language

Wolof (Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, and the Gambia.

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Yoro Dyao

Yoro Boly Dyao, Yoro Boly Jaw, or Yoro Booli Jaw (born in Xumma, Waalo, - April 3, 1919) was a Wolof historian, author, noble, and scion of Senegambia, in northern Senegal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_people

Also known as List of Wolof people, Wolof (people), Wolof ceremonies, Wolof peoples, Wolouf.

, Jollof rice, Jolof Empire, Kara Mbodji, Kingdom of Jolof, Lamine Diack (footballer), Lebu people, Maissa Bigué Ngoné Fall, Mamadou Loum, Mamadou Niang, Mamor Niang, Marabout, Mauritania, Methodism, Mikayil Faye, Mouride, Moussa Djitté, Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal, Ndaté Yalla Mbodj, New Imperialism, Niger–Congo languages, Njembot Mbodj, Nyamakala, Oral tradition, Oumar Ngom, Papa Bouba Diop, Papa Waigo, Pape Souaré, Papy Djilobodji, Peanut, Portuguese colonization of the Americas, Qadi, Sahel, Salif Diao, Scramble for Africa, Senegal, Senegal River, Senegambia, Senegambian languages, Serer language, Serer people, Slave raiding, Slavery in Africa, Sofiane Diop, Soninke people, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan (region), Sufism, Sunni Islam, Tété, The Gambia, Tijaniyyah, Tone (linguistics), West Africa, West Atlantic languages, Wolof language, Yoro Dyao.

Wolof people, the Glossary

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See also

Ethnic groups in Mauritania

Ethnic groups in Senegal

Ethnic groups in the Gambia

References