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In 1925 African-American historian, sociologist, and Pan-Africanist W. E. B. Du Bois wrote of the school "On the picturesque island of Goree whose ancient ramparts face modern and commercial Dakar I saw two or three hundred fine black boys of high school rank gathered in from all Senegal by competitive tests and taught thoroughly by excellent ...
Gorée : The Slave Island. BBC News. 8 July 2003. la Maison des Esclaves. Visite Virtuel d'Ile de Goree: UNESCO World Heritage Africa. Report on the Slave Trade Archives project, under the Memory of the World Programme, in Dakar, Senegal, 7-11 January 2002 Ahmed A. Bachr, UNESCO. UNESCO World Heritage site 26 (1978) listing: Goree Island.
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 ...
Island of Saint-Louis: Saint-Louis: 2000 956bis; ii, iv (cultural) The narrow island is located in the mouth of the Senegal River. In the 17th century, the French founded a trading hub there, which later served as the capital of Senegal (from 1872 to 1957) and was an important economic and cultural centre of French West Africa.
The Goree Institute, formally The Goree Institute, Centre for Democracy, Development and Culture in Africa (French: L'Institut Gorée – Centre pour la Démocratie, le Dévéloppement et la Culture en Afrique), is a Pan African organization located on Gorée Island in Dakar, Senegal.
French rule of Saint-Louis, Senegal and Gorée Island by Chartered Companies Expanding to small posts along West African Coast as Far as Gabon until 1850s: Governors of the Compagnie Normande 1626 to 1658 1626–1631 : Jacques Fumechon 1631–1641 : Thomas Lambert 1641–1648 : Jean Caullier 1649–1650: de Soussy 1651–1658 : Mésineau
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The Henriette-Bathily Women's Museum (in French: Musée de la Femme Henriette-Bathily) is a museum which was located on Gorée, an island on the coast of Senegal, across from the House of Slaves museum. In May 2015, it moved to Dakar, at the Place du Souvenir Africain et de la Diaspora (Corniche Ouest).