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From street names to textbooks, Senegal is rewriting French colonial memory
Krzysztof Gorny, an urban planning researcher with the University of Poland who has studied and written a book on Senegal’s ...
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Senegal set to rename streets, buildings in move to erase French colonial legacy
The Senegalese government is seeking to redefine its long-standing relationship with its former colonial rulers, the French, ...
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Museum of Black Civilizations
That has changed, especially with the December opening of Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations, a repository for African art, culture and history. The $34 million project, some 50 years in ...
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Flowers in the sand: families mourn Senegal migrants lost at sea
Fatou Fall defiantly faced the ocean and sadly laid a flower on Mbao beach near Senegal's capital Dakar in memory of her husband -- one of many who left on perilous clandestine crossings for ...