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Discover Dakar, Home to Africa's Tallest Statue (African Renaissance Monument)

Discover Dakar, Home to Africa’s Tallest Statue DISCLAIMER : For Copyright Matters please Contact us directly.... Email Address emmastopten@gmail.com. Thanks Hello Displorers, welcome to another informative video presented to you by Displore and thanks for watching. Africa is home to numerous monuments and landmarks, but one of them stands out as the tallest. Hence in this video, we shall we shall have a joy ride through Dakar, home to numerous landmarks and the tallest statue in Africa. This capital city of Senegal is the also the largest city of Senegal with a population of over 3 million inhabitants in its metro area. The area around Dakar was settled in the 15th century by the Portuguese who established a presence on the island of Gorée off the coast of Cap-Vert and used it as a base for the Atlantic slave trade. France took over the island in 1677 andfollowing the abolition of slave trade, French annexation of the mainland area in the 19th century brought growth to Dakar making it a major regional port and a major city of the French colonial empire. In 1902, Dakar replaced Saint-Louis as the capital of French West Africa. From 1959 to 1960, Dakar was the capital of the short-lived Mali Federation and in 1960, it became the capital of the Independent Republic of Senegal. If you are new here, welcome, be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you don’t miss any of our videos. Dakar is a history city with great achievements under its belt but before we look into all of its culture, numerous landmarks and economy, the historic background is a good place to start for a better understanding of the city. History The Cap-Vert peninsula was settled no later than the 15th century, by the Lebou people, an aquacultural ethnic group related to the neighbouring Wolof and Serer. The original villagesOuakam, Ngor, Yoff and Hannstill constitute distinctively Lebou neighbourhoods of the city today. In 1444, the Portuguese reached the Bay of Dakar, initially as slave-raiders butpeaceful contact was finally opened in 1456 by Diogo Gomes, and the bay was subsequently referred to as the "Angra de Bezeguiche" which is after the name of the local ruler. The bay of "Bezeguiche" would go on to serve as a critical stop for the Portuguese India Armadas of the early 16th century, where large fleets would routinely stop, both on their outward and return journeys from India, to repair, collect fresh water from the rivulets and wells along the Cap-Vert shore and trade for provisions with the local people for their remaining voyage. 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. The Portuguese eventually founded a settlement on the island of Gorée, which by 1536 they began to use as a base for slave exportation. The mainland of Cap-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. 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. 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 and 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 of Ndakaaru is still recognized as the traditional political authority of the Lebou by the Senegalese State today. Slave trade was abolished by France in February 1794 but Napoleon reinstated it in May 1802, then finally abolished it permanently in March 1815. Despite Napoleon's abolition, a clandestine slave trade continued at Gorée until 1848, when it was abolished throughout all French territories. Dakar is a major financial centre, home to a dozen national and regional banks including the BCEAO which manages the unified West African CFA currency, and to numerous international organizations, NGOs and international research centres. Dakar has a large Lebanese community concentrated in the import-export sector that dates to the 1920s, a community of Moroccan business people, as well as Mauritanian, Cape Verdean, and Guinean communities. The city is home to as many as 20,000 French expatriates. France still maintains an air force base at Yoff and the French fleet is serviced in