The Republic of Senegal is an African country that was a French colony. The name is taken from the Senegal River, which borders its northern and eastern limits, but its etymology is not clear and in the country they prefer the one proposed by the priest, historian and linguist David Boilat who associated it with the phrase "sunu gaal", which in the Wolof language means "our canoe", for the sense of communion, of "rowing all together". 2nd_ Africa River . In addition to the above etymology there is a more likely one taken from the Serer ethnicity as "Sene o gal" ("body of water of [deity] Rog Sene").
