New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Once a holding cell for kidnapped Africans, the island’s House of Slaves is today a UNESCO World Heritage site—and the site of healing and atonement.

Once an emblematic landmark of traditional west African architecture, Dakar's fondly remembered Sandaga market can now only ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of followers from the Layene ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood ... who specializes in Sufism in West Africa. “It’s not like anything else in Senegal or elsewhere in the Muslim ...