Travel Tales: Dakar, Senegal

Travel can be described as people moving between geographical locations by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one-way or round-trip. Travel can be comprised of short sojourns between sequential actions. The purpose of travel may vary, whether for recreation, research, volunteering, business, or mission […]

Le Musee des Civilisations Noires: The Museum of Black Civilizations

It was the first President of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor who first had the vision of a museum celebrating African culture. Senghor was born on October 9, 1906 in Joal, Senegal. He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and at the Sorbonne in Paris where he discovered African art’s impact on modern day painting, sculpture, and […]