By Clark Andrew F.
Senegal has generally been the assembly position of Islamic and coastal subject matters in African reports, bringing jointly Arab, eu and numerous West African affects into its wealthy and engaging background. the trendy Republic of Senegal has attracted consciousness for its hugely noticeable position at the foreign level and its winning democratic method in an ethnically various region. Political scientists have thinking about the country's integration of African socialism, democracy and Islam whereas improvement economists have studied efforts to relieve the Sahelian drought and desertification. This significantly revised version offers old, monetary, political, and social information, maps and knowledge at the companies, contributors, peoples, traditions and concepts that formed and proceed to mildew nationwide and everyday life. the amount serves either these looking an creation or remoted facts in addition to specialist students. because the first version, Senegal has skilled a variety of political, monetary and demographic adjustments. facts are awarded in transparent and handy tables. Alphabetical entries of personalities, locations, ethnic teams, occasions, "et al.", represent the gigantic middle of the dictionary. the hot advent provides an summary of all areas of Senegal from earliest occasions to the current, by way of a close chronology of occasions. a longer assessment of the scholarly literature in English and French precedes the tremendous multiplied, accomplished and up-to-date bibliography.
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After the election, Diouf abolishes the post of prime minister. Retired President Senghor elected to the Academie Française. In December, serious riots in the Casamance leave 25 dead and 80 wounded. Page 37 1984Sekou Toure of Guinea-Conakry dies, and some Guinean refugees in Senegal return home. 1985Diouf becomes chairman of the Organization of African Unity for one year. Drought throughout Senegal, resulting in food shortages. Groundnut production severely curtailed. 1986Scholar-politician Cheikh Anta Diop dies, and the University of Dakar and IFAN research institute are renamed after him.
Diagne asserts commune residents' rights to serve in army only if treated as full French citizens. Massive recruitment drives for WWI. After winning privileged conditions of military service for urban commune residents, Diagne leads major French con- scription drive in the rural Protectorate. 1912 onFrench grant vast tracts of land to marabouts, espe- cially Murids, to reward loyalty and expand peanut production. Lands along new railroad very lucrative. 1923Dakar-Bamako railroad completed. Proposed trans- Saharan link abandoned.
The situation has remained tense, although mediation efforts have been under way recently. -0Arrival of new populations. Sites with pottery, polished hematite axes, and tumuli, from Cape Verde to the Falémé River in the Upper Senegal ValleyProtohistoric periodBeginning of the metal age. c. 4th cen. c. 5th cen. D. into historic periodSand burial mounds without megaliths throughout central western Senegal (table continued on next page) Page 18 (table continued from previous page) Gegraphical Areas of SenegalTimeSenegal River ValleyCentral WesternCasamance and Senegal Orientalc.
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