X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Mbaye-Jacques Diop


Mbaye-Jacques Diop

On 13 February 2008, the Grand Marabout of the Mourides, Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, asked Diop to return from Paris to meet with Wade in Dakar on 14 February.

At the Cotonou congress of the African Regroupment Party in July 1958, Diop was a delegate representing the youth of Senegal; he was subsequently the Secretary for Foreign Relations of the National Youth Union of Mali from 1959 to 1960.

After Iba Der Thiam mediated the situation, Diop agreed to resign on 16 November, but Wade nevertheless criticized Diop at a meeting of the PDS Steering Committee, saying that he had wasted 300 million CFA francs on "whimisical missions".

Rufisque

Previously, Mbaye-Jacques Diop was Mayor from 1987 to 2002, and he remains the town's Honorary Mayor.


Abdoul Mbaye

Abdoul Mbaye is the eldest in a family of three brothers and five sisters, including Cheikh Tidiane Mbaye, CEO of Sonatel.

Annette Mbaye d'Erneville

Annette Mbaye d’Erneville (Sokone, 1926) is a Senegalese writer.

Blaise Diagne

Born from a Serer father, Niokhor Diagne and a Manjack mother originating in Guinea-Bissau, Gnagna Anthony Preira, Galaye Mbaye Diagne was born in Gorée, Senegal, he was later adopted by a Christian family who baptised him Blaise.

Kéba Mbaye

Upon his death, IOC President Jacques Rogge released this statement: "Keba Mbaye was one of those men whose humanity and charisma mark you for life. His devotion to the Olympic movement and its values was unfailing. We have lost a great man."

Mbaye Dieye Faye

So Mbaye Dieye Faye begun to tap the drums with his companion Youssou N'Dour well known as the "King of Mbalax" in Senegal.

Mère-Bi

Mère-Bi is a 2008 documentary film about Annette Mbaye d'Erneville by her son, director William Mbaye.

Pilar Homem de Melo

In 2006 Pilar traveled to Senegal where she worked on new arrangements and compositions with Habib Faye and Thio Mbaye – both musicians of Youssou N'Dour and Peter Gabriel – performing at Casino du Cap Vert in Dakar.


see also