Dakar, Senegal - Place de l'Independance - postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Place de l'Independance, Dakar, Senegal
• Publisher:  Iris, Paris c.1960s
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Dakar (French pronunciation da.ka?) ^[4] is the capital and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland. Its position, on the western edge of Africa, is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic and European trade; this fact aided its growth into a major regional port.

According to December 31, 2005 official estimates, the city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 2.45 million people.^[3]

Dakar is a major administrative centre, home to the National Assembly of Senegal and Senegal's President's Palace.

The Cape Vert peninsula was settled, no later than the 15th century, by the Lebou people, an aquacultural ethnic group related to the neighboring Wolof and Sereer. The original villages: Ouakam, Ngor, Yoff and Hann, still constitute distinctively Lebou neighborhoods of the city today. In 1444, the Portuguese reached the Bay of Dakar, initially as slave-raiders, but were repulsed by the natives on the shores.^[5][6][7] Peaceful contact was finally opened in 1456 by Diogo Gomes, and the bay was subsequently referred to as the ""Angra de Bezeguiche"" (after the name of the local ruler).^[8] The bay of ""Bezeguiche"" would serve as a critical stop for the Portuguese India Armadas of the early 16th century, where large fleets would routinely put in, both on their outward and return journeys from India, to repair, collect fresh water from the rivulets and wells along the Cape Vert shore and trade for provisions with the local people for their remaining voyage.^[8] (It was famously during one of these stops, in 1501, where the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci began to construct his ""New World"" hypothesis about America.^[9])

The Portuguese eventually founded a settlement on the island of Gorée (then known as the island of Bezeguiche or Palma), which by 1536 they began to use as a base for the export of slaves. The mainland of Cape Vert, however, was under control of the Jolof Empire, as part of the western province of Cayor which seceded from Jolof in its own right in 1549. A new Lebou village, called Ndakaaru, was established directly across from Gorée in the 17th century to service the European trading factory with food and drinking water. Gorée was captured by the United Netherlands in 1588, which gave it its present name (spelled Goeree, after Goeree-Overflakkee in Holland). The island was to switch hands between the Portuguese and Dutch several more times before falling to the English under Admiral Robert Holmes on January 23, 1664, and finally to the French in 1677. Though under continuous French administration since, métis families, descended from Dutch and French traders and African wives, dominated the slave trade. The infamous ""House of Slaves"" was built here in 1776.

In 1795 the Lebou of Cape Verde revolted against Cayor rule. A new theocratic state, subsequently called the ""Lebou Republic"" by the French, was established under the leadership of the Diop, a Muslim clerical family originally from Koki in Cayor. The capital of the republic was established at Ndakaaru. In 1857 the French established a military post at Ndakaaru (which they called ""Dakar"") and annexed the Lebou Republic, though its institutions continued to function nominally. The Serigne (also spelled Sëriñ, ""Lord"") of Ndakaaru is still recognized as the traditional political authority of the Lebou by the Senegalese State today.

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