Dakar

**Dakar** (/dɑːˈkɑːr, dæ-/ UK also: /ˈdækɑːr/; French: [dakaʁ]; Wolof: *Ndakaaru*) e la kapital teŋɛ ko a Senegal. A department ko Dakar taa la noba yagroŋ neŋ 1,278,469, ane a noba yagroŋ a Dakar metropolitan da eɛ 4.0 million a 2023.

Dakar bezie la a Cap-Vert peninsula, a westernmost point ko mainland Africa. Cap-Vert da nyɛ la zɔɔfaabo  yi Portuguese a 15th century saŋa. A Portuguese da vɛŋɛɛ ka noba da baŋ ka ba bebe a island ko Gorée naŋ kɔgele a coast ko Cap-Vert kyɛ da naŋ de o ka o da e zie ko a Atlantic slave trade. France da de la pare a island a 1677. Naŋ da vɛŋ ka ba da saaŋ a slave trade ane French annexation ko a mainland area 19th century, Dakar da baa la a da e a major regional port ane a major city ko a French colonial empire.

## Geography

### Climate

### Museums

* IFAN Museum of African Arts or Musee Theodore Monod
* Henriette-Bathily Women's Museum
* House of Slaves
* Village des Arts
* Parc Forestier et Zoologique de Hann, aka the Senegal Zoo
* Museum of Black Civilisations
* Dynamic Museum
## Nembanne mine
*Abdoulaye Faye, footballer
*Akon, R&B singer
*Baaba Maal, singer and guitarist
*Babacar Khane, yoga practitioner
*Boris Diaw, basketball player
*Bouna Coundoul, footballer
*Cheikh Anta Diop, Historian, anthropologist, physicist, politician Cheikh Anta Diop University
*Cheikh Samb, basketball player
*DeSagana Diop, former basketball player, head coach of the Westchester Knicks
*Didier Raoult, microbiologist and virologist, was born in Dakar in 1952
*Fatou Samba, member of South Korean girl group Blackswan
*Hamady N'Diaye, basketball player
*Ibou Badji, basketball player
*Ibrahim Ba, former footballer
*Ismaël Lô, singer-songwriter
*Idrissa Gueye, footballer
*Issa, R&B singer
*Khaby Lame, influencer
*Macoumba Kandji, footballer
*Mamadou N'Diaye, former basketball player for Auburn University and the Toronto Raptors
*Mame Biram Diouf, footballer
*Marc Lièvremont, former rugby player and former head coach of the France national rugby union team
*Marcel Lefebvre, Founder of the SSPX, Apostolic delegate to Pope Pius XII, and Archbishop of Dakar.
*Mbaye Diagne, United Nations military observer and hero during the Rwandan genocide
*Mouhamed Gueye, basketball player
*Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, foreign correspondent for NPR News
*Orchestra Baobab
*Ousmane Barro, basketball player
*Papa Amadou Kante, basketball player
*Papa Bouba Diop, former footballer
*Pape Paté Diouf, football player
*Papiss Cisse, footballer
*Patrice Evra, former footballer,
*Patrick Vieira, former footballer
*Pélagie Gbaguidi, contemporary artist
*Sadio Mane, footballer
*N'Goné Fall, cultural consultant
*Sheck Wes, rapper, songwriter, model
*Ségolène Royal, French politician born in Dakar
*Souleyman Sané, former footballer
*Tacko Fall, basketball player
*Thione Seck, singer and songwriter
*Wasis Diop, musician
*Youssou N'Dour, singer and percussionist
## International relations
, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
*Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
*Baku, Azerbaijan
*Douala, Cameroon
*Isfahan, Iran
*Melbourne, Australia
*Milan, Italy
*Oran, Algeria
*Rangpur, Bangladesh
*Rosario, Argentina
*Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
*Taipei, Taiwan
*Washington, D.C.
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## Bibliography
Meŋ kaa kyɛ: Bibliography kyaare a yelkore ko Dakar

## Ziiri mine liŋkiri
*Dakar official website  (archived)

## Sommo Yizie