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List Of Senegalese
This is a list of Senegalese people, organized by the field within which they are primarily notable. this list includes both native and expatriate Senegalese. Academics * Rose Dieng-Kuntz (1956–2008), computer scientist * Cheikh Mbacke, statistician * Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye (born 1937), veterinary scientist * Tomas Diagne, biologist * Tidiane N'Diaye, anthropologist Artists *Amadou Ba (born 1945), painter *Seydou Barry (1943–2007), painter *Seni Awa Camara (born ca. 1945), sculptor *Abdala Faye (born 1971), born in Yene Guedj, near Dakar *Ibrahima Kébé (1955–2019), Soninke painter * Joëlle le Bussy Fal (born 1958), sculptor, art dealer, arts organizer, and art curator * Ismaïla Manga (1957–2015), Jola painter * Iba N'Diaye (1928–2008), painter * Henri Sagna (born 1973), sculptor * Issa Samb (1945–2017), also known as Joe Ouakam, painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright, and poet * Ousmane Sow (1935–2016), sculptor * Papa Ibra Tall (1935–2015) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Senegal
The national flag of Senegal () is a tricolour consisting of three vertical green, yellow and red bands charged with a five-pointed green star at the centre. Adopted in 1960 to replace the flag of the Mali Federation, it has been the flag of the Republic of Senegal since the country gained independence that year. The present and previous flags were inspired by the French tricolour, which flew over Senegal until 1960. History Under French colonial rule over Senegal, the authorities forbade the colony from using its own distinctive colonial flag because they were worried that this could increase nationalistic sentiment and lead to calls for independence. With the rise of the decolonization movement in Africa, the French were obliged to grant limited autonomy to Senegal as a self-governing republic within the French Community. Senegal was combined with French Sudan on April 4, 1959, to form the Mali Federation. That day, a new flag was adopted: a vertical green, yell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joëlle Le Bussy Fal
Joëlle is a French feminine given name, the feminine form of Joel. Notable people with the name include: * Joëlle Aubron (1959–2006), French anarchist * Joëlle Békhazi (born 1987), Canadian water polo player * Joëlle Bergeron (born 1949), French politician * Joëlle Bernard (1928–1977), French actress * Joëlle Boutin (born 1979), Canadian politician * Joëlle Brupbacher (1978–2011), Swiss mountaineer * Joëlle Cartaux, French figure skater * Joëlle Ceccaldi-Raynaud (born 1951), French politician * Joëlle De Brouwer (born 1950), French runner * Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam (born 1955), French politician * Joëlle Jones (born 1980), American comics artist * Joëlle Kapompolé (born 1971), Belgian politician * Joëlle Léandre (born 1951), French double bassist * Joëlle Milquet (born 1961), Belgian politician * Joëlle Mogensen (1953–1982), French singer * Joëlle Morosoli (born 1951), Canadian artist * Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin (born 1986), Cameroonian athlete * Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amadou Dia Ba
El Hadj Amadou Dia Bâ (born September 22, 1958) is a retired Senegalese athlete who competed in the 400 metres hurdles. He won the 1988 Olympic silver medal in this event with a personal best time of 47.23 seconds. It was the first, and only (as 2024) Olympic medal for Senegal. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. Achievements As of 20 November 2024, Dia Ba holds five track records for the 400 metres hurdles set over the period August 1985 to September 1989. These include the track records for Manresa (48.69) and Nairobi Nairobi is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kenya. The city lies in the south-central part of Kenya, at an elevation of . The name is derived from the Maasai language, Maasai phrase , which translates to 'place of cool waters', a ... (48.03). References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dia Ba, Amadou Senegalese male hurdlers Senegalese male high jumpers 1958 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliou Cissé
Aliou Cissé (born 24 March 1976) is a Senegalese professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of the Libya national team. Cissé is best known for captaining the Senegal team which reached the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations Final and for being the first Senegal manager to win the tournament in 2022 after reaching the final in 2019. Having begun his career in France, he later played for English clubs Birmingham City and Portsmouth. Cissé was a defensive midfielder who also, on occasion, played at centre-back. Cissé has been the head coach of Senegal since 2015, having briefly taken charge of them following Amara Traoré's sacking, in a caretaker role in 2012. He was also the assistant coach of the under-23 side from 2012 to 2013, becoming head coach from 2013 to 2015. Club career Born in Ziguinchor, Senegal, Cissé moved to Paris at the age of nine, where he grew up with dreams of playing for Paris Saint-Germain. He began his career with Lille before mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiaroye
Thiaroye (or Tiaroye) is the name of a historic town in Sénégal, situated in the suburbs of Dakar, on the southeast coast of the Cap-Vert peninsula, between Pikine and Rufisque. Since the administrative reform in 1996, Thiaroye has been divided into independent communes, Thiaroye-Gare, Thiaroye-sur-Mer and Thiaroye-Kao (or ''Djiddah Thiaroye Kao''), with Guinaw-Rail Nord, Guinaw-Rail Sud (both to the west), and Tivaouane-Diacksao (to the east) split off and separating Thiaroye-sur-Mer from the other two inland communes. History The village of Thiaroye was founded sometime around 1800, and as the city of Dakar, created by the French, expanded in the 20th century, Thiaroye was slowly merged into the larger city. Thiaroye is most known for, and its name has become emblematic of, a single incident in 1944: the Thiaroye Massacre by French forces. On 1 December 1944, at the barracks of Thiaroye, African soldiers clashed with the French state. The uprising involved nearly 1280 Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pape Matar Sarr
Pape Matar Sarr (; born 14 September 2002) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Tottenham Hotspur and the Senegal national team. Club career Metz Pape Matar Sarr made his professional debut with Génération Foot in his native country of Senegal, before signing a five-year contract with Ligue 1 side Metz on 15 September 2020. Sarr was initially sent to play for Metz's second team in Championnat National 2, but made only one appearance before he was recalled to the first team squad following the season being halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France. He made his debut for the Metz first team on 29 November 2020 in a Ligue 1 game against Brest. On 31 January 2021, Sarr scored his first goal in Ligue 1 in the reverse fixture, a 4–2 away victory over Brest. Tottenham Hotspur On 27 August 2021, Sarr signed for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He was loaned back to Metz until the end of the 2021–22 season. On 1 January 2023, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moussa Tine
Moussa Tine (born 1953) is a Senegalese Contemporary art, contemporary painter and sculptor. He is part of the second generation of the Dakar School (), an art movement affiliated with ''Négritude''. Biography Moussa Tine was born on 10 March 1953, in Ndiane, in the Thiès Region, Senegal. His first job as a young boy was working as a ticket taker and announcer for car rapide (Senegalese mini buses). He started his pursuit of art in the 1970s by painting motifs and signs on the car rapide. Tine furthered his arts education and graduated in 1978 from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts (Senegal). His paintings have sculptural elements, and often contain discarded materials such as metal and wood. He was a founding member of ANAPS (Association of Visual Artists of Senegal). In 1992–1993, Tine's work was included in the traveling group exhibition of fifty Senegalese artists called, ''Dream, Myth, and Reality: Contemporary Art From Senegal'', sponsored by the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papa Ibra Tall
Papa Ibra Tall (1935–2015) was a Senegalese tapestry weaver, painter, and illustrator. He is known for his role in the Dakar School () art movement, and as an early professor at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts. Biography Papa Ibra Tall was born in 1935 in Tivaouane, in the Thiès Region of Senegal. His artistic career began oil painting under the tutelage of amateur French painters in Dakar. In 1955, he studied architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, where he was exposed to the Négritude movement and provided illustrations for the Présence Africaine. He later attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and pursued instruction in Sèvres with the assistance of Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor, where he studied painting, serigraphy, tapestry, mosaics, and comparative pedagogy. Career Papa Ibra Tall returned to Senegal from France in 1960, founding the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Dakar with Iba Ndiaye and Pierre L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ousmane Sow
Ousmane Sow (10 October 1935 – 1 December 2016) was a Senegalese sculptor of larger-than-life statues of people and groups of people. Life Sow was born in Dakar, Senegal, on 10 October 1935. After the death of his father in 1956, he left Dakar to study in France, where he obtained a diploma in physiotherapy. He returned to Senegal after it became independent in 1960 and started a practice in physiotherapy. He later went back to France and practised there, but returned to Senegal in 1978. He died in Dakar on 1 December 2016 at the age of 81. Work Sow was inspired by photographs by Leni Riefenstahl of the Nuba peoples of southern Sudan, and from 1984 began to work on a series of larger-than-life sculptures of muscular Nuba wrestlers. To make them, he developed a series of new techniques and materials. They were shown at the Centre Culturel Français de Dakar in 1987. Sow later made series of sculptures of Maasai people, of Zulu people, of Peul or Fulani people, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Ouakam
Issa Samb, also known as Joe Ouakam (31 December 1945 – 25 April 2017) was a Senegalese painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright and poet. Early life Issa Samb was born on 31 December 1945 in Dakar, Senegal. He graduated from the University of Dakar, where he studied philosophy and the law. Career Samb took up the pseudonym Joe Ouakam. He did inter-disciplinary work that encompasses sculpture, performance, painting and theatre. His work was considered to draw from both African tradition and the European avant-garde movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Situationism and Fluxus. Samb was well known for his presence. His involvement in the community made him one of the most well known artists in Dakar. Samb's downtown courtyard studio, often found cluttered with various materials and projects, served as an exhibition of his own. Needless to say that Samb played a crucial role in Dakar's art scene. Samb was one of the founding members of the seminal Laboratoire Agit'Art i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Sagna
Henri Sagna (born 1973 in Dakar) is a Senegalese sculptor. Biography Henri Sagna lives and works in Senegal. After his studies at the '' École nationale des arts du Sénégal'' in Dakar in 2005, he received the first prize at the sixth ''National Salon des artistes plasticiens sénégalais''. Sagna is known as artist sculptor-recycler. His artworks are formed by assembling collected materials in a variety of ways. The artist leads a series of workshops and ateliers in France and Senegal, which have as their central theme the concepts of recovery and recycling of materials. Works Sagna's work is based on respect for and knowledge of the environment, and to raise awareness of important issues among the general public and residents of townships. A large part of his plastic work is focused on the species of mosquito which transmit malaria. His artworks represent an interesting method of raising awareness in Europe, and especially in France, of malaria and the damage it caus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
