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Business in Senegal: Kaolack, Thiès, Port of Dakar, Pikine, Touba, Wolof

Senegal is a West African country

  1. Senegalese population: 14 million inhabitants
  2. Capital of Senegal: Dakar
  3. Senegal has great political stability
  4. Senegal is the fourth of West African economy (after Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Ghana)
  5. Senegal is one of the more industrialized African countries
  6. Currency of Senegal: CFA Franc
  7. Senegal share borders with Gambia (circumscribed in Senegal), Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania (813 kilometres) and Mali
    1. Distance from Senegal to Cape Verde: 560 kilometres

Largest Senegalese cities (region/population, million people)

  1. Dakar (Dakar/1,3)
  2. Pikine (Dakar/1,3)
  3. Touba (Diourbel/0,8)
  4. Guédiawaye (Dakar/0,3)
  5. Thiès (Thiès /0,3)
  6. Kaolak (Kaolak/ 0,2)
  7. M'bour (Thiès/0,2)
  8. Rufisque (Dakar/0,2)
  9. Saint-Louis (Saint-Louis/0,2)
  10. Ziguinchor (Ziguinchor/ 0,2)
  11. Diourbel (Diourbel/0,1)
  12. Tambacounda (Tambacounda/0,1)
  13. Louga (Louga/0,1)
  14. Kolda (Kolda/0,8)
  15. Mbacké (Diourbel/0,7)

Transport and Logistics in Senegal:

The Port of Dakar is the largest Senegalese port

Logistics: Port of Dakar, Senegal. Access to Mali

Access to the Dakar-Lagos Transport Corridor. Road to Gambia

Dakar-Lagos Corridor: Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria

Business in Senegal (Foreign Trade) Senegal

  1. Masters: Trade and Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
  2. Doctorate in African Business

Business in Senegal

More information: Trade and Business in Senegal, at EENI Global Business School Website.

Trade and Business Organisations (Senegal)

  1. West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)
  2. U.S.-WAEMU Agreement
  3. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
  4. OHADA
  5. Organisation for the Development of the Senegal River
  6. Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)

Organisation for the Development of the Senegal River

  1. African Union
  2. AUDA-NEPAD
  3. Economic Commission for Africa
  4. African Development Bank

Business in Senegal: one of the less corrupt African Countries, Port of Dakar, Thies

  1. Official language of Senegal: French
  2. The six national languages of Senegal are:
    1. Wolof (spoken by 72% of the Senegalese)
    2. Sérère
    3. Fula
    4. Mandinka
    5. Soninke
    6. Diola

West Africa (Trade, Business) Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

  1. Total Senegalese area: 196.712 km²
  2. Climate of Senegal: tropical
  3. Calling code of Senegal: 221
  4. Senegalese code top-level domain: .sn

Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegalese Historian, Thieytou -Caytou- Diourbel region, 1923)

Sheikh Anta Diop (Negritude)

The Republic of Senegal is composed by 14 regions (population, million people):

Business in Senegal (Foreign Trade)

  1. Dakar (2,4)
  2. Diourbel (0,9)
  3. Fatick (0,6)
  4. Kaffrine
  5. Kaolack (1,1)
  6. Kédougou
  7. Kolda (0,8)
  8. Louga (0,5)
  9. Matam (0,4)
  10. Saint-Louis (0,8)
  11. Sédhiou
  12. Tambacounda (0,5)
  13. Thiès (1,3)
  14. Ziguinchor (0,5)

Religion in Senegal

  1. Sunni Islam (95% of the Senegalese population)
  2. African Traditional Religions
  3. Christianity

Senegalese Ethnicities

  1. Wolof (39% of the Senegalese population)
  2. Fula (26%)
  3. Serer (15%)
  4. Jola (Dyula) (4%)
  5. Malinke (4%)
  6. Other ethnicities: Soninke and Manjaque

History of Senegal

Pathé Diagne (Senegalese linguist)

Pathé Diagne Senegalese Linguist

  1. 100,000 years: flint weapons (Sérère country)
  2. 1st century: ceramics (Senegal River Valley)
  3. Sixteenth century: Serer dynasties
  4. 850: Kingdom of Tekrour (converted to Islam in 1030)
  5. 1040: Almoravids (conquest of Spain)
  6. 1100: Kingdom of Sosso (Soumaoro Kanté)
  7. 1200: Senegal under the Malian Empire domination
  8. 1360: foundation of the Wolof Empire (Ndiadiane Ndiaye)
  9. 1400: Kingdom of Sine
  10. 1444: Portuguese arrives to Senegal
  11. Slave Trade
  12. Denianké dynasty
  13. 1673: Islamic revolution
  14. 1669: arrival of French
  15. Colonisation
  16. 1895: French West Africa (AOF)
  17. Independence (France): 1960

Higher Education in Senegal

LMD System (Bachelor, Master, Doctorate) - Senegalese Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Public Senegalese Universities

  1. University Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar)
  2. University Gaston Berger (Saint Louis)
  3. University of Bambey
  4. University of Thiès
  5. University of Ziguinchor

Private Senegalese Universities (Dakar)

  1. University Amadou Hampaté Bâ
  2. University of the Company
  3. University Dakar Bourguiba
  4. University of the Sahel
  5. Euro-Africa University
  6. University Sine-Saloum El Hadji Ibrahima Niasse (Kaolack)

Senegal is a member of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES)

Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegalese intellectual, poet and politician)

Leopold Sédar Senghor Senegal

Business in Africa (Spanish) Senegal Trade and Business in Africa (French) Sénégal Business in Africa (Portuguese) Senegal



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