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La Poste Senegal is the public company in charge of postal services in Senegal. La Poste Senegal is a member of the Universal Postal Union.
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La Poste Senegal is the public company in charge of postal services in Senegal. La Poste Senegal is a member of the Universal Postal Union.
The appearance of the postal system in Senegal coincides with the country's colonial conquest. It served as a critical tool of colonialism. Before colonization, information was exchanged on foot or horseback under the services of kings and local rulers. The transmission of important messages across short distances was done with the help of drums played to a specific beat. This was used to announce events such as weddings, births, baptisms, deaths, enemy attacks, and preparation for a military expedition.
Under colonialism, a quicker method of communication appeared. For rulers, communication with other rulers and with their subjects spread throughout the country, became a more and more pressing need. They had in their courts an epistolary service whose task was to carry correspondences.
People speaking Arabic, French and other African languages were in charge of this system which was starting to resemble a postal service. In Senegal, a full-fledged postal service was in operation by 1626. The year marked the start of postal communication between Senegal and France. Ships from the merchant associations of Rouen and Dieppe carried postal packages between the two countries.
In 1758, these associations were replaced by the French East India Company that was in charge of the postal transport between Europe and the African coast. In 1781, Senegal was made a colony of France which increased communications between the two countries.
In 1850, the postal service was incorporated into a new organization and, in 1851, the postal transport between Gorée and Saint-Louis was transferred to people who crossed first the river and then the sea by simple pirogues.
The conquest of the colony's interior by Louis Faidherbe began in 1855. The French previously controlled trading posts only along the coast. Louis Faidherbe's conquest made a postal service necessary for official communication. Plans were put in place to set up telegraph lines throughout the country.
In 1879, the postal service was based on the French model.
By 1900, the principal centres of the postal service were all linked together. All principal centres, in turn, were connected to the capital. A system of telegraph lines covered almost the entire colony.
• Ibrahima Ndiaye DG OPT from December 1962 to January 1973
• Ndaraw Cissé DG OPT from January 1973 to June 1976
• Mahady Diallo DG OPT from June 1976 to November 1978
• Assane Ndiaye DG OPT from November 1978 to November 1983
• El Hadj Malick Sy DG OPT/OPCE from November 1983 to June 1987
• Serigne Ahmadou Camara DG OPCE from June 1987 to December 1993
• Ibrahima Sarr DG OPCE from December 1993 to May 2000
• Iba Joseph Basse DG La Poste from May 2000 to August 2004
• Mamadou Thior DG La Poste from August 2004 to December 2013
• Siré Dia DG La Poste since January 2013
To stimulate the sustainable development of a universal postal services of quality, ease and accessibility.
To facilitate communication between the residents of this planet by:
The history of Senegal is commonly divided into a number of periods, encompassing the prehistoric era, the precolonial period, colonialism, and the contemporary era.
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Waalo was a kingdom on the lower Senegal River in West Africa, in what is now Senegal and Mauritania. It included parts of the valley proper and areas north and south, extending to the Atlantic Ocean. To the north were Moorish emirates; to the south was the kingdom of Cayor; to the east was Jolof.
Saint Louis or Saint-Louis, is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 kilometres (200 mi) north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially estimated at 258,592 in 2021. Saint-Louis was the capital of the French colony of Senegal from 1673 until 1902 and French West Africa from 1895 until 1902, when the capital was moved to Dakar. From 1920 to 1957, it also served as the capital of the neighboring colony of Mauritania.
Louis Léon César Faidherbe was a French general and colonial administrator. He created the Senegalese Tirailleurs when he was governor of Senegal.
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Rivières du Sud was a French colonial division in West Africa, roughly corresponding to modern coastal sections of Guinea. While the designation was used from the 18th to 20th century, the administrative division only existed from 1882-1891.
Louis Alexandre Esprit Gaston Brière de l'Isle was a French Army general who achieved distinction firstly as Governor of Senegal (1876–81), and then as general-in-chief of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps during the Sino-French War.
La Poste is a postal service company in France, operating in Metropolitan France, the five French overseas departments and regions and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Under bilateral agreements, La Poste also has responsibility for mail services in Monaco through La Poste Monaco and in Andorra alongside the Spanish company Correos.
Lat Jor Ngoné Latir Jop was a nineteenth-century damel (king) of Cayor, a Wolof state that is today in Sénégal. He is today a national hero of Senegal for his resistance to French colonialism.
The Emirate of Trarza was a precolonial state in what is today southwest Mauritania. It has survived as a traditional confederation of semi-nomadic people to the present day. Its name is shared with the modern Region of Trarza. The population, a mixture of Berber tribes, had been there for a long time before being conquered in the 11th century by Hassaniya Arabic speakers from the north. Europeans later called these people Moors/Maures, and thus have titled this group "the Trarza Moors".
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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Mali.
Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye is a former professor of Veterinary Sciences from Senegal who has held many senior administrative positions in African educational institutions and organizations.
This is a timeline of the history and development of Serer religion and the Serer people of Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania. This timeline merely gives an overview of their history, consisting of calibrated archaeological discoveries in Serer countries, Serer religion, politics, royalty, etc. Dates are given according to the Common Era. For a background to these events, see Roog, Serer religion, Serer creation myth, Serer prehistory, Lamane, States headed by Serer Lamanes, Serer history and Serer people.
The Battle of Logandème was an uprising led by the Serer King Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof, king of Sine, against the French Empire. The battle took place at Logandème which was a part of Sine at the time. The battle was also a revenge attack against the Serer people after their resounding victory against France at the Battle of Djilass on 13 May 1859. It was the first time that France decided to employ cannonball in the Senegambia.
Ndaté Yalla Mbodj, also known as Ndateh Yalla Mbooj, was the last Lingeer (Queen) of Waalo, a Jolof kingdom located in what is now northwest Senegal. During her reign, she fought against French colonization and Moorish invasion of her kingdom. Ndaté Yalla and her sister Ndjeumbeut Mbodj were two of the most powerful women of 19th century Senegalese dynastic history.
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