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Gorée merchants settle in Dakar. French build fort on Dakar Point. [1] 1862 – "Master plan for Dakar is drafted by Émile Pinet-Laprade." [2] 1863 Streets named. [2] Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Senegambia established. [3] 1867 - Port was opened for commerce. [4] 1872 – Town becomes part of the commune of Gorée. [5] 1878 – Population ...
Dakar (/ d ɑː ˈ k ɑːr, d æ-/ UK also: / ˈ d æ k ɑːr /; [4] French:; Wolof: Ndakaaru) [5] is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023. Dakar is situated on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of ...
The history of Senegal is commonly divided into a number of periods, encompassing the prehistoric era, the precolonial period, colonialism, and the contemporary era. Paleolithic [ edit ]
The Historical Museum of Senegal in Gorée (French: Musée historique du Sénégal à Gorée) is a museum attached to the Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire (IFAN) [1] and located on the island of Gorée, in the bay of Dakar, Senegal. The museum is dedicated to showing and commemorating the different stages of Senegal's history from ancient ...
Senegal. The impressive African Renaissance Monument is in Dakar. ... taking a boat to the car-free Gorée Island to learn more about the history of the transatlantic slave trade and visiting the ...
Gorée Island was the Pit Stop for Leg 4 of The Amazing Race 6, and the Slave House itself was visited during Leg 5. [44] [45] Gorée Island has been featured in many songs, due to its history related to the slave trade. The following songs have significant references to Gorée Island: Steel Pulse– "Door Of No Return" on African Holocaust (2004)
Arrival of Blaise Diagne, Deputy for Senegal, High Commissioner of the Government for the recruitment of black troops in Dakar in March 1918. The French Third Republic: Jean-Baptiste Lafon de Fongauffier 1871–76 (Mixed race) Abolished 1876–79; Alfred Gasconi 1879–89 (Mixed race) Aristide Vallon 1889–93 (French) Jules Couchard 1893–98
The National Archives of Senegal (Archives Nationales du Sénégal) is headquartered in Dakar, in the Central Park building on Avenue Malick Sy. It was first called Archives Nationales in 1962, but the collection existed since 1913 as the archives of the colonial French West Africa administration. It moved from Saint-Louis to Dakar after 1958. [1]