People on Senegal-and-gambia's street signs

Cheikh Anta Diop

4 Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. Diop's work is considered foundational to...

Blaise Diagne

4 Blaise Diagne was a French Senegalese politician who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1914 to 1934, representing the Four Communes of French Senegal. He was the first person of full West...

Dial Diop

3 Thierno "Dial" Diop est meneur de la rébellion des Lébous contre le souverain du Cayor, Amary Ngoné Ndella Coumba Fall, qui dura près de deux décennies. Il commande les troupes lébous contre les...

Dawda Jawara

3 Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara was a Gambian politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1970, and then as the first President of The Gambia from 1970 to 1994, when he was overthrown by Yahya...

Ousmane Diop Socé

2 Ousmane Diop Socé was a writer, politician, and one of the first Senegalese novelists.             

Habib Bourguiba

2 Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia from 1956 to 1957, and then as the first president of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987....

Amadou Bamba

2 Amadou Bamba (1853–1927), also known to followers as the Servant of the Messenger and Serigne Touba or "Sheikh of Touba", was a Sufi saint and founder of the Mouride Brotherhood.

Nelson Mandela

2 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and...