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

In Senegal, streets named after French colonial figures are being changed to names of prominent people from Senegal. The move comes as the West African country is rethinking its ties with France and ...

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.

Dakar is actively revising its colonial history by renaming streets and public squares that honor French colonial figures.

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

A demonstrator waves a Senegalese national flag during protests in support of main opposition leader and former presidential ...

The largest stadium in Africa is the FNB stadium, also known as Soccer City in Johannesburg. It can hold over 94,000 people ...

Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of ...

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 ...