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History of Senegal; List of colonial heads of French Sénégal; Assimilation (French colonialism) – a policy that ostensibly offered rights and French citizenship to native Africans colonised by France; Indigénat – laws and regulations which created in practice an inferior legal status for natives of French colonies from 1881 until the 1940s
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]
The Four Communes (French: Quatre Communes) of Senegal were the four oldest colonial towns in French West Africa.In 1848 the Second Republic extended the rights of full French citizenship to the inhabitants of Saint-Louis, Dakar, Gorée, and Rufisque.
Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. Senegal is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. [14] It owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. [15] The climate is typically Sahelian, though there is a rainy season. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square ...
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 ...
Both France and Senegal work closely together in West African regional affairs, and maintain a close cultural and political relationship. [4] In 2010, France closed its military base in Senegal, however, France maintains an air force base within the Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar. [ 5 ]
Senegalese Tirailleurs serving in France, 1934 1942, Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. A tirailleur who has been awarded the Cross of Liberation by General Charles de Gaulle. On the eve of the Second World War, five regiments of Tirailleurs Sénégalais were stationed in France in
From the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, the Senegal River valley experienced a great deal of climate change. Because there were few industries in Senegal, people emigrated to France to find jobs. [4] The first wave of Senegalese immigration to France took place, like other sub-Saharian waves, around 1964. [5]