Senegal

A man in southern Senegal has set himself the ambitious task of planting five million trees over the next five years. This visionary project came to Adama Diémé when he returned home to the Casamance region in 2020 after a few years…

RnB singer Akon says his much-delayed plans for Akon City - an African metropolis on the Senegalese coast - are "100,000% moving". Although goats are currently grazing on the site, he says that critics will look "super stupid" in the…

It is something that those who didn't experience it will never forget, let alone those of us who did. There were 22 of us rescued by the fishermen, but I was the only woman. It was very, very hard. The night before travelling on the…

On a stopover in Mali on his way to Libya, Bakary Jammeh abandoned plans to board a boat to Italy. He had a brother there, but Jammeh became convinced he should put their reunion on hold and turn back in search of gold. Jammeh had met a…

Following widespread protests in Senegal about the rape and murder of women, the law was changed in 2020 to make rape a serious crime instead of a misdemeanour. The events opened up a conversation around sexual assault, shame and…

My name is Karla. I am a Jamaican from the parish of Clarendon, but I spent more than half my life in London, UK. In 2020 I pursued my life-long dream to relocate to Africa. I chose The Gambia. I have been living in The…

Last summer, my wife Sarah and I were preparing to move from France to Senegal for my new job as a communications officer for IFC. We had a lot to think about, with some of our concerns revolving around our then-seven-month-old…

33-year-old Liliane Coulibaly Caly is a hairstylist empowering her fellow African women to wear their afro hair proud. She is the owner of hair salon; Akoya Hair, in Senegal. Her salon specializes in Afro hair and a range of natural…

"When I was little, being a successful woman meant being a woman who was able to decide for herself, who had a job and didn’t have to wait for other people to do things for her. I saw that whenever a man took care of a woman, in some ways,…