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In 1659, France established the trading post of Saint-Louis, Senegal. The European powers continued contending for the island of Gorée, until in 1677, France led by Jean II d'Estrées during the Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678) ended up in possession of the island, which it would keep for the next 300 years. [ 4 ]
The earliest evidence of human life is found in the valley of the Falémé in the south-east. [1]The presence of man in the Lower Paleolithic is attested by the discovery of stone tools characteristic of Acheulean such as hand axes reported by Théodore Monod [2] at the tip of Fann in the peninsula of Cap-Vert in 1938, or cleavers found in the south-east. [3]
A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895–1930 (1997) * Dobie, Madeleine. Trading Places: Colonization & Slavery in 18th-Century French Culture (2010) Martin, Guy (1985). "The Historical, Economic, and Political Bases of France's African Policy". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 23 (2): 189–208.
Afrique occidentale française Commercial Relations Report, showing the profile of a Fula woman, January–March 1938. French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) 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 ...
France portal; Senegal portal; Grisar-Kassé, Karen (2006), Indigenization of industrial management in postcolonial Africa: a case study from Senegal (PDF), Ph.D. dissertation, Bielefeld University, OCLC 282989058; O'Brien, Rita Cruise (1972), White society in Black Africa: the French of Senegal, Northwestern University Press, ISBN 9780810103740
France exported cloth, iron and muskets to Senegal and imported textiles, ivory, spices and slaves. [1] In 1659, France established a trading post in present-day Saint-Louis operated by the French West India Company (later known as the Compagnie du Sénégal). [2] As a result of the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) between France and the Kingdom of ...
Colonial powers and their expansion since 1492. Some commentators identify three waves of European colonialism. [2]The two main countries in the first wave of European colonialism were Portugal and Spain. [3]
The Scramble for Africa [a] 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, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain.