Tag Archives: Senegal

A toilet cleaner is one job description that no one would like to be identified with. Many people underlook it so much that it makes whoever has it for a job very scared. This brings us to the famous quote by Hollywood actress and Oscar’s winner Lupita Nyong’o. She said that all dreams are valid. However, one cannot gainsay if ...

Kenyan long-serving politician and Prime Minister, Raila Odinga has come out to promise Kenyans AFCON football once they elect him president. The prestigious football tournament on the continent came to a close yesterday with Senegal crowned champions. This was also the first trophy that the Lions of Teranga have won in their history in the tournament. They did it at ...

Locals in Senegal have been left in the dark as singer Akon’s futuristic city he promised has failed to even start. A whole year has gone by since the singer laid the first stone of the $6 billion city he vowed to build in Senegal, but the area is still a grazing field. The stone itself sits at the bottom ...

Adji Sarr is a Senegalese woman who accused the leader of the opposition of rape. She has come to learn in the hardest way possible, the consequences of speaking out about sexual abuse in the conservative West African country. In February, Sarr who is in her early 20s told police that opposition leader Ousmane Sonko forced her to sleep with ...

Celebrated pop star Akon on Monday said that he had finalized the agreement to build his own city in Senegal. The rapper said that when Akon City becomes a reality, he will also have his own Crypto-currency called AKoin. Location The singer signed the agreement with Senegal’s state-owned tourism company SAPCO to build a complex in the seaside village of ...