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Senegalese NYC is a Wolof and French speaking community. The country is mostly part of the Sahel, the transition zone between the Sahara Desert and the savannas of West Africa. Many West African Griots are from Senegal.

Senegalese NYC News

April 28, 2022

Senegalese Mbalax Global Music

Youssou N’Dour, Africa’s most famous living singer and one of the world’s great voices, plays Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Fri, May 13, 2022 at 8pm. From $16. carnegiehall.org 🇸🇳

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Youssou N’Dour,
Mother Africa’s Most Famous Singer,
Plays Carnegie Hall

Youssour N'Dour (Youri Lenquette/Carnegie Hall)
Youssour N’Dour (Youri Lenquette/Carnegie Hall)

Youssou N’Dour, Africa’s most famous living singer and one of the world’s great voices, plays Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Fri, May 13, 2022 at 8pm. From $16. carnegiehall.org 🇸🇳

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Youssou N’Dour is a Senegalese singer and former politician. “Rolling Stone” magazine has called him the most famous living African singer, and he really is. He is one of Mother Africa’s leading cultural figures and was Senegal’s Minister of Tourism in 2012-13.

N’Dour is known for Senegalese Mbalax music based on Serer sacred puberty rites, but his style of Global Music is a fusion with popular Latin music that came back to Africa. Into his MBalax tradition, N’Dour pours Cuban Rumba, Hip-Hop, Jazz and R&B.

Youssou N’Dour really is the Star of Dakar, and his community-oriented, multicultural perspective makes him one of the world’s guiding lights.

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Instagram @youssoundour1959

Previously

For the Common Ground: Mini-Global Mashup #5 – Southern Italy Meets Senegal, Alessandra Belloni plays Southern Italian music and Alioune Faye, a Griot (West African troubadour), plays Senegalese percussion at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens on Sun, Apr 3 at 1pm. $15. 🇮🇹🇸🇳

March 2022

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita present their new album “Suba,” Global Music reuniting the Caribbean and Mother Africa, at Roulette Intermedium in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn on Thu, Mar 31 at 8pm. $25. robertbrowningassociates.com 🇨🇺🇸🇳🇻🇪

New York Film Festival 2019

September 27 – Oct 13, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER ~ The 57th Festival opens with Scorcese’s ‘The Irishman’ and screens Cannes Grand Prix winner ‘Atlantic,’ Pedro Almodóvar’s Spanish film ‘Pain and Glory,’ and Olivier Assayas’ French film ‘WASP Network’ at Film at Lincoln Center

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Little Senegal NYC

Le Petit Senegal (Little Senegal) is in Harlem’s West African neighborhood around 116th St between Lenox Ave and Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Senegal

Senegal was part of the Ghana Empire (ca 300-1100). Islam is the national faith. It came to the Americas during the Colonial Era. The colonizers were French.

Haitian Revolution leader Dutty Boukman (ca 1767-1791) was from the region. He was called “Boukman” because he was a Muslim priest, a man of The Book (The Koran).

Senegal is the northernmost part of West Africa. The modern country straddles the Sahel. Northern Senegal is desert. Southern Senegal is savanna. The Senegal River is a major cultural region. Senegal surrounds the nation of Gambia on the Gambia River.

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