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Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007), film director and producer, born in Dakar.; Djibril Diop Mambéty (1948–1998), film director and actor, born in Colobane, Dakar.; Safi Faye (born 1943), film director and ethnologist, born in Dakar.
Thiaw, Issa Laye (1943–2017), historian, theologian and scholar of Serer religion and history [22] Rama Thiaw (1978– ), filmmaker, screenwriter; Traoré, Abibatou ...
Henri Sagna (born 1973) sculptor; Issa Samb (1945–2017; also known as Joe Ouakam) painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright, poet; Younousse Sèye (born 1940) mixed media artist, actress; described as "Senegal's first woman painter"
However, the changing of migration occurred not only by the increase in numbers of Senegaleses arriving: Until the late 1990s, the majority of Senegalese who emigrated to the United States were young men, but since the end of the decade, women also began to immigrate, working as hairdressers, waitresses in restaurants and studying in universities.
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. [1]
Ibra Kasse's Star Band was the most famous orchestra of the 1960s and 1970s and was a leader in the modernization of Senegalese music. Super Star de Dakar, led by Nigerian saxophonist, Dexter Johnson, spun off from the Star Band and was the other leading band in Dakar in the 1960s. Both played a style that was heavily influenced by Cuban music ...
Tirailleur from the Bambara people (Mali) (engraving, 1890). The Senegalese Tirailleurs were formed in 1857 by Louis Faidherbe, Governor-General of French West Africa, because he lacked sufficient French troops to control the territory and meet other requirements of the first phase of colonization.
Senegalese Wolof griot, 1890 A Hausa griot performs at Diffa, Niger, playing a komsa ().. A griot (/ ˈ ɡ r iː oʊ /; French:; Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: ߖߋ߬ߟߌ, [1] djeli or djéli in French spelling); also spelt Djali; Serer: kevel or kewel / okawul; Wolof: gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician.