In a new educational initiative, five-year-old pupils in a kindergarten near central Dakar have begun learning English, alongside French, the country’s official language. Teacher Absa Ndiaye reported ...

English was only taught in public high schools and universities, although it is sometimes taught from nursery school onwards ...

Hers is one of more than 600 classes in Senegal that have been testing a new program of teaching English in kindergartens and ...

Crescent City resident Leslie Pariseau finds a complex but resilient community where no idea is too far-fetched.

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.

Aston Villa had Habib Beye on their books for a couple of years between 2009 and 2011 - he has since moved into management ...

Ending US dollar dominance alone will not end monetary imperialism. Only much better multilateral arrangements to clear ...

"The Baye Fall style is original," explains Mr Samba, whose late father was a respected Baye Fall sheikh, or marabout as religious leaders are known in Senegal. "The patchwork clothing symbolises ...

The Baye Fall, a subgroup of Senegal's large Mouride brotherhood ... It's a mystical kind of working, where labour itself becomes devotion to God," Maam Samba, a leader of a Baye Fall group in Mbacke ...

Bargny Gouddau, Senegal - January 23 ... FOOTAGE OF BINETA DIENG, 57, MOTHER OF 19-YEAR-OLD DIENG, AND AISSATOU SAMBA, 65, MOTHER OF 30-YEAR-OLD BABACAR, WHO DISAPPEARED AT SEA AFTER THEIR ...

As dusk settles over Mbacke Kadior, a village in central Senegal, the rhythmic chants of the Muslim worshippers dressed in patchwork garments fill the air. Gathered in a tight circle outside a ...