Le Petit Senegal West 116th Street between Lenox Avenue / Malcolm X Boulevard on the east and Frederick Douglass Boulevard to the west. Le Petit Senegal is the main shopping and social area for many of Harlem's West African immigrants. The majority of these recent immigrants hail from (partially) French speaking Senegal, reflecting the French local name of Little Senegal. However, African languages, such as Wolof, are also spoken in this part of Manhattan. There are also immigrants from other West African countries, including Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Gambia, and Burkina Faso. West African stores, restaurants, bistros, bakeries, cafes, and other proprietorships
Music of Senegal Blues which explores African blues & traditional West African styles, this led on to the formation of The West African Blues Project. Music of Senegal Senegal's music is best known abroad due to the popularity of mbalax, a development of Serer "sabar" drumming popularized by Youssou N'Dour. During the colonial ages Senegal was colonized by France and many, though not all, Senegalese identified as French instead of any African ethnicity. Post-independence, the philosophy of negritude arose, which espoused the idea that the "griot" traditions of Senegal were as valid, classical and meaningful as French classical music. The first President of