Word: wolof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father, a former mechanical engineer for the French Navy who later ran the biggest concrete factory in West Africa, encouraged his family to preserve Wolof and Muslim traditions...
...born in 1957, three years before Senegal gained independence from France, into a family that belonged to the French-educated Senegalese elite and the dominant Wolof ethnic group. They lived in the French part of Dakar, which was rare for Africans...
...father wore African garb, attended mosque regularly and practiced polygamy, which was valued in Wolof society. He had three wives and 14 children. Diop says it was like having three mothers and he did not consider his full siblings any different from his half siblings...