I know Senegal primarily for its music. They produced:
Youssou N'Dour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCpjFMvz-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLrE0ZkbZfs
Ismael Lo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOfm9WRFRxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlqXmlrvHv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VxRvslyMjw
Baaba Maal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzU_CUK1VKk
West Africa has some of the best Afro-Folk music on the continent. Mali and Ivory Coast are among others that got some great music too.
In Kenya, the closest that I got to that sweet African Folk music was through Ayub Ogada (RIP), passed this past Friday, not long after Zimbabwe's biggest Oliver Mtukudzi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Jwf-Y1uww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyKA5mUhHc
In Uganda, they got Geoffrey Oryema:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huw8tu4Q-iI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZs5eAljqLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR6Abd_Rp7k
Sweet African Folk music is my fav type of music, have to comb through artists in different countries to find gems, because such music does not get played anywhere. Got to find music that you like for yourself.
Also know Senegal for sports (Football, Surfing & Senegalese wrestling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q21lQAXABP8).
I think that they are one of the nations that are still under French colonial rule. They use a currency given to them by the French.
There was a confrontation between France and Italy after Italy accused France of colonialism.
https://www.thenational....colonial-jibes-1.816507
""If people are leaving today it's because European countries, France above all, have never stopped colonising dozens of African countries."
“The EU should sanction France and all countries like France that impoverish Africa and make these people leave, because Africans should be in Africa, not at the bottom of the Mediterranean.”
"Mr Di Maio refused to back down on Monday, saying the CFA Franc, a colonial-era currency used by 14 African countries and guaranteed by the French Treasury, was an exploitative tool."
"France is one of those countries that, by printing money for 14 African states, prevents their economic development and contributes to the fact that the refugees leave and then die in the sea or arrive on our coasts,"
"If Europe wants to be brave, it must have the courage to confront the issue of decolonisation in Africa."
"Relations between Italy's coalition government, which includes right-wing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, and France, have been strained over clashes about migration and Europe.
Both sides accused the other of failing to take their fair share of people rescued from the Mediterranean Sea ever since Italy's anti-migration government came into power last June."
They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds.