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- Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. He is perhaps the best-known musician to come from Senegal and...
- male, deceased (1905)
- Xavier Coppolani was a French military and colonial leader, who was instrumental in the colonial occupation and creation of modern-day Mauritania....
- male
- Omar ibn Said (ca. 1773-1864) was born in present-day Senegal in Futa Turo, a region between the Senegal River and Gambia River in West Africa, to...
- male, deceased (1059)
- Abdallah Ibn Yasin (d. 1059) was a theologian and founder of the Almoravid dynasty. Abdallah ibn Yasin was from Gazula, and a member of the Sanhaja...
- male, deceased (1838)
- René Caillié was a French explorer, and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié was born at Mauzé sur le Mignon, Poit...
- male
- Euthymenes (early sixth century BCE) was a Greek explorer from Massilia (Marseille), who explored the coast of West Africa as far, apparently, as a...
- male, deceased (1315)
- Vivalso, Ugolino and Sorleone de (fl. 1291-1315), Genoese explorers, connected with the first known expedition in search of an ocean way from...
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