The Christian Portuguese trading post displaced the Arab commerce and Islam dominance along the African coast. Senegal in West Africa was first set up as a trading post in a friendly alliance between its local king and the Portuguese. At the end of the slave trade, Portugal’s commerce was crushed and the Senegal’s had to adjust again, when the French colonized the Muslim communities, converting much of its population to Christianity. The country’s population is composed of the Bantu people, whose society speaks a common native language of Swahili, Makhuwa, Sena and Portuguese; nothing more than a Sociolinguistics salad
The Christian Portuguese trading post displaced the Arab commerce and Islam dominance along the African coast. Senegal in West Africa was first set up as a trading post in a friendly alliance between its local king and the Portuguese. At the end of the slave trade, Portugal’s commerce was crushed and the Senegal’s had to adjust again, when the French colonized the Muslim communities, converting much of its population to Christianity. The country’s population is composed of the Bantu people, whose society speaks a common native language of Swahili, Makhuwa, Sena and Portuguese; nothing more than a Sociolinguistics salad