Traces the history of the African kingdom of Senegambia, looking at the art, religion, and lifestyle of the Wolof people, and discussing the effects and aftermath of the slave trade in the West Atlantic coast region.
Presents a short history of Senegal on the western coast of Africa and provides information on its natural environment, the slave trade of the sixteenth through eighteen centuries, the people and different ethnic groups, and industrial, economical and political culture.