Taariix — The History of Senegal

Audio stories, old maps, historical figures and quizzes to discover, understand and pass on the history of Senegal.

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• Where does the name “Senegal” come from?
• Ancient Human Presence
• Megaliths of Senegambia
• Kingdom of Tekrour
• Islamization of Tekrour
• The Almoravid Movement
• Kédougou: Bassari, Bedik, Djalonké and Fulani
• The Mali Empire — its reach into Senegal
• The Kingdom of Wuli
• The Kal, joking kinship
• The Djolof Empire
• Kingdom of Sine — the Serer heartland
• The Kingdom of Niani
• Arrival of the Portuguese
• The Baynunk, the Kasa and the origin of the name Casamance
• The Kingdom of Saloum
• The Slave Trade — Gorée
• The Kingdom of Oussouye, a sacred Diola kingship
• Battle of Danki — end of Djolof supremacy
• Kingdom of Cayor — the most powerful Wolof kingdom
• The Kaabu Empire
• The Kingdom of Baol
• Kocc Barma Fall — the sage of Cayor
• Islamic University of Pire
• The Boundou, a state founded by Malick Sy
• Founding of Saint-Louis
• The Marabout War
• Gum Arabic — the wealth of Senegal
• Founding of the Daara of Koki
• The Signares — queens of colonial trade
• Revolution of the Fouta-Toro — Abdoul Kader Kane
• French return to Senegal
• Talatay Nder — the women of the Waalo
• Abolition of Slavery
• The Kingdom of Fouladou
• Bakel and the Gajaaga, crossroads of the upper river
• Carabane, the first French trading post in Casamance
• Sédhiou and the Pakao
• Arrival of the Holy Ghost Fathers
• The Four Communes — citizens ahead of their time
• El Hadj Oumar Tall — the reforming Jihad
• Father Boilat — first Senegalese priest
• Faidherbe, Governor
• Ndatté Yalla Mbodj — resistance of the Waalo
• The birth of the written press
• The Senegalese Tirailleurs
• Dakar — founding and capital of French West Africa
• Damel Lat Dior — Martyr of Cayor
• The Jihad of Maba Diakhou Bâ
• Seminary of Ngazobil
• Cheikh Moussa Kamara, historian of Fouta-Toro
• Cheikhna Cheikh Saad Bouh in Saint-Louis — founder of social peace
• Thiénaba — holy city of the Tijaniyya
• Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba and the Mouridiyya
• Cheikh Ibra Fall and the Baye Fall
• Cheikh Bou Kounta — Ndiassane, capital of the Qadiriyya
• Seydina Limamou Laye — founder of the Layène
• Berlin Conference — the partition of Africa
• Alfa Mamadou Lamine Dramé — Soninke resistance
• Dakar–Saint-Louis Railway — first rail in West Africa
• Founding of Touba
• Popenguine pilgrimage — Our Lady of Black Africa
• Digane — holy city of the Qadiriyya
• Alboury Ndiaye — last Buurba of Djolof
• Creation of French West Africa
• El Hadji Malick Sy — founder of the spiritual centre of Tivaouane
• William Ponty School — the builders of Africa
• The peanut — pillar of the colonial economy
• Blaise Diagne — first Black African deputy
• Christian Casamance
• Grand Magal of Touba — first Mouride pilgrimage
• Cathedral of African Remembrance in Dakar
• Cheikh Ibrahima Niasse and the Fayda
• Negritude — Senghor, Césaire, Damas
• Madina Gounass — holy city of the Tijaniyya in Casamance
• The IFAN of Dakar — from its founding to the Carbon-14 laboratory
• Bombing of Dakar — Operation Menace
• Aline Sitoé Diatta — the Resistance fighter of Casamance
• Thiaroye 1944 — the betrayed sacrifice
• The CFA franc — creation and devaluation
• Lamine Guèye Law — citizenship for all
• Railway workers' strike on the Dakar-Niger line
• Great voices of Senegalese literature — Birago Diop and Mariama Bâ
• The SOCOCIM cement works — building Senegal
• Cheikh Anta Diop — "Black Nations and Culture"
• Defferre Framework Law — toward autonomy
• Founding of the University of Dakar
• Mali Federation — a brief union
• Independence of Senegal
• Senghor-Mamadou Dia crisis
• Grand Mosque of Touba
• Ousmane Sembène — father of African cinema
• World Festival of Black Arts
• May 68 in Senegal — general strike
• The Great Sahelian Drought
• The Senegalese Sugar Company — Senegal's sugar
• From Gnith to Keur Momar Sarr — northern water for all
• The birth of Senegalese television
• Cheikh Anta Diop at the Cairo Symposium
• Ahmadou Mahtar Mbow — Director of UNESCO
• Basketball — Senegal's pride
• ECOWAS — Senegal builds a united West Africa
• Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum
• Serigne Sam Mbaye at UNESCO — Mouride Sufism
• The Paris-Dakar Rally — Lake Retba
• Transition — Abdou Diouf and Senghor at the Académie française
• The Casamance conflict
• Senegambia Confederation and the crisis of 1989
• SENELEC — electricity for Senegal
• The independent press — Wal Fadjri and Sud
• The phosphates of Taïba and the ICS — mineral wealth
• The Senegal River dams — Diama and Manantali
• Amadou Dia Ba — silver medal at the Seoul Olympics
• Khelcom — the domain of Serigne Saliou Mbacké
• The rise of télécentres — a phone for everyone
• Modern Senegalese wrestling — Tyson and Yékini
• Gaston Berger University — Senegal's second university
• Visit of Pope John Paul the Second to Gorée
• Sud FM — the first private radio
• SONES — drinking water for all
• Mobile phones and the Internet — the end of distance
• First democratic transition
• Mame Madior Boye — first woman Prime Minister
• Amy Mbacké Thiam — 400 m world champion
• Sinking of the Joola
• FIFA World Cup — Senegal reaches the quarter-finals
• 2sTV — the end of the television monopoly
• The Great Green Wall
• Y'en a marre movement
• Election of Macky Sall
• Sangomar oil — a new era
• Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD)
• The Museum of Black Civilisations
• The Senegambia Bridge — opening up Casamance
• The COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal
• The Regional Express Train (TER)
• AFCON 2022 — Senegal, champions of Africa
• Election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye

Historical figures

• Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba
• El Hadj Oumar Tall
• Lat Dior Ngoné Latyr Diop
• Ndaté Yalla Mbodj
• Alboury Ndiaye
• Mamadou Lamine Dramé
• Maba Diakhou Bâ
• Aline Sitoé Diatta
• El Hadj Malick Sy
• Seydina Limamou Laye
• Cheikh Ibrahima Niass
• Cheikh Ibrahima Fall
• Cheikhna Cheikh Saad Bouh
• Cheikh Bou Kounta
• Thierno Souleymane Ball
• Léopold Sédar Senghor
• Cheikh Anta Diop
• Blaise Diagne
• Lamine Guèye
• Mamadou Dia
• Abdou Diouf
• Abdoulaye Wade
• Serigne Amary Ngoné Ndack Seck
• Ndiadiane Ndiaye
• Koli Tenguella
• Maysa Wali Jaxateh Manneh
• Sundiata Keita
• Ousmane Sembène
• Cheikh Hamidou Kane
• Birago Diop
• Mariama Bâ
• Serigne Sam Mbaye
• El Hadji Djily Mbaye
• Khaly Amar Fall
• Cheikh Moussa Kamara