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Diouf
Diouf, (French spelling in Senegal) or "Joof" (English spelling in The Gambia) is a Serer surname carried by several personalities : People * Abdou Diouf (born 1935), second president of Senegal, former Secretary-General of La Francophonie * El Hadji Diouf (born 1981), Senegalese footballer * Élage Diouf, Senegalese singer, songwriter and percussionist living in Quebec * Ibra Diouf, member of the Pan-African Parliament * Jacques Diouf, Senegalese politician (Director-General Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO) * Mamadou Diouf (historian), Senegalese historian, professor at Columbia University * Mame Biram Diouf (born 1987), Senegalese footballer who plays for Stoke City. * Mame Tacko Diouf (born 1976), Senegalese hurdler * Mouss Diouf (born 1964), French actor * Ngalandou Diouf, Senegalese politician (1875-1941), first African elected official since the beginning of colonization * Ndella Paye Diouf (born c. 1974), Senegal-born French Afro-feminist * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Hadji Diouf
El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf (; born 15 January 1981) is a Senegalese former professional footballer. Throughout his career, Diouf played as a winger or a forward. Having started his professional football career in France with Sochaux, Rennes and Lens, Diouf finalised a move to Premier League side Liverpool prior to the 2002 FIFA World Cup for Senegal and went on to have a memorable tournament. He has also played in England's top flight for Bolton Wanderers, Sunderland and Blackburn Rovers before a stint in the Scottish Premier League with Rangers. In 2011, he joined Football League Championship side Doncaster Rovers but was released at the end of the 2011–12 season following the club's relegation. He then moved to Leeds United where he spent two seasons. During his nine-year international career, he scored 21 goals in 69 caps, and also garnered considerable notoriety for a series of controversial incidents. Early life Born in Dakar, Senegal, Diouf came from a Serer backgroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mame Biram Diouf
Mame Biram Diouf (born 16 December 1987) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Turkish Süper Lig club Konyaspor. Diouf started his career at Diaraf before moving to Molde in 2007. In his first season with them he won the Norwegian First Division, and gained promotion to the Norwegian top division. His performances and goalscoring attracted interest from a number of big clubs, and he eventually moved to Manchester United in 2009, remaining on loan at Molde until January 2010. He scored on his home debut for United and won the League Cup as an unused substitute in the 2010 final. Diouf joined Hannover in January 2012, where he scored 35 goals in 71 appearances, before moving to Stoke City on a free transfer in 2014. Diouf spent six seasons with Stoke scoring 25 goals in 157 appearances before leaving in the summer of 2020. Diouf made his Senegal debut in 2009 in a 2–1 friendly win over the DR Congo; he has represented the country at the 2015 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdou Diouf
Abdou Diouf ( ; Serer: ; born 7 September 1935)Biography at Socialist Party website . is a Senegalese politician who was the second of , in office from 1981 to 2000. Diouf is notable both for coming to power by peaceful succession, and leaving willingly after losing the 2000 presidential election to |
Pape Diouf
Mababa Diouf, known as Papa Diouf or Pape Diouf (18 December 1951 – 31 March 2020) was a Franco-Senegalese football personality who was a sports journalist, agent for football players, and later president of Olympique de Marseille from 2005 to 2009. A descendant of a Senegalese military family, Pape Diouf arrived in France at the age of 18 and started after studying political science in the profession of sports journalism with the communist newspaper La Marseillaise in his football column and columnist of Marseille sports life including Olympique de Marseille during the 1970s and 1980s. At the end of the 1990s, he joined the daily ''Le Sport'', which was supposed to compete with ''L'Équipe'', but ultimately failed. Linked to many people in football, he then became an agent for several players in the 1990s until 2004. That year, he joined the Olympique de Marseille club as general manager, then became chairman of the executive board. He was appointed president in 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngalandou Diouf
Ngalandou Diouf (var. Galandou Diouf) (14 September 1875 - 6 August 1941) born in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Saint-Louis Senegal, was the first African elected official from the advent of colonialism in the territory of French West Africa. Early life Diouf was born to the aristocratic Diouf family. He was of Wolof people, Wolof and Serer people, Serer background, and as a native of one of the Four Communes of Senegal considered part of France, was granted the (nominally) full rights of French citizenship. He began his career as a schoolteacher and minor government clerk but became progressively involved in politics. Political career Diouf was elected in 1909 to represent the Four Communes, commune of Rufisque at the advisory General Assembly (''Conseil Général'') of Saint-Louis, then capital of colonial Senegal. He was an editor of the influential "''La Démocratie''" newspaper, and founding editor of "''Le Sénégal''". As a journalist and political leader, he was the political god ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Diouf
Jacques Diouf (1 August 1938 – 17 August 2019) was a Senegalese diplomat and the Director-General of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 1994 to 31 December 2011. He died on 17 August 2019, 16 days after his 81st birthday. Education Diouf attended primary and secondary school in his native Saint-Louis, Senegal. He then traveled to France, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in agriculture from the ''Ecole nationale d'agriculture'', Grignon-Paris Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, a Master of Science in tropical agronomy from the ''Ecole nationale d'application d'agronomie tropicale'', Nogent-Paris (France), Doctor of Philosophy in social sciences of the rural sector from the ''Faculté de droit et de sciences économiques, Panthéon'' – Sorbonne, Paris. Career Beginning in 1963 at the age of 25, Diouf was the Director of the European Office and the Agricultural Program of the Marketing Board (Paris/Dakar). Leaving that positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serer People
The Serer people are a West African ethnoreligious group."Charisma and Ethnicity in Political Context: A Case Study in the Establishment of a Senegalese Religious Clientele" Leonardo A. Villalón, Journal of the , Vol. 63, No. 1 (1993), p. 95, on behalf of the International African Institute They are the third-largest ethnic group in Senegal, making up 15% of the Senegalese pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pape Paté Diouf
Pape Paté Diouf (born 4 April 1986) is a Senegalese professional footballer who last played as a striker for Arendal. Diouf has previously played for bigger clubs like FC Copenhagen, Molde FK, and Odds BK. Career Diouf began his career with SC de Rufisque and joined in January 2006 to Molde FK. Following some impressive displays for Molde, Diouf moved to Superligaen side Copenhagen in the summer of 2011 for a reported DKK 18 mil fee. After failing to make an impact for Copenhagen, Diouf was loaned back to his old club Molde, for the rest of the 2012 season, on 19 August 2012. In August 2013, he again moved on loan, this time to fellow Superligaen side Esbjerg fB. On 31 March 2014, Diouf left Copenhagen permanently, returning to Molde on a three-year contract. On 28 July 2015, Diouf moved to fellow Tippeligaen side Odds BK on loan for the remainder of the season. Career statistics Honours Molde *Tippeligaen: 2011, 2012, 2014 Copenhagen *Danish Superliga: 2012–13 *Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamadou Diouf (historian)
Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, the Director of Institute for African Studies, and a professor of Western African history at Columbia University. He also serves as director of the Institute of African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (SIPA) and has been instrumental in its recent reorganization. Diouf holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Prior to teaching at Columbia, he taught at the University of Michigan and before that at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Diouf also serves on the editorial board of several academic journals, including the ''Journal of African History'', '' Psychopathologie Africaine'', and ''Public Culture''. His research interests include the urban, political, social, and intellectual history of colonial and postcolonial Africa. His most recent books are ''La Construction de l’Etat au Sénégal'', written with M. C. Diop & D. Cruise O’ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylviane Diouf
Sylviane Anna Diouf is a historian and curator of the African diaspora. She is a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Her contribution as a social historian, she stressed, "may be the uncovering of essential stories and topics that were overlooked or negated, but which actually offer new insights into the experience of the African Diaspora. A scholar said my work re-shapes and re-directs our understanding of this history; it shifts our attention, corrects the historical record, and reveals hidden and forgotten voices." Early life and education Diouf was born in France, the daughter of a Senegalese physicist and a French school principal. She is a descendant of Khaly Amar Fall (1555-1638) founder, in 1603, of Pir, the Senegalese institute of higher Islamic studies. Historical figures such as Sulayman Bal and Abdel Kader Kane who blocked t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Renndaandi Senegaali); Arabic: جمهورية السنغال ''Jumhuriat As-Sinighal'') is a country in West Africa, on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds the Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. Senegal also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. Senegal is notably the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. It owes its name to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehvann Diouf
Yehvann Diouf (born 16 November 1999) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Stade de Reims. Club career On 8 September 2016, Diouf became the youngest ever player to sign a professional contract with Troyes AC, at the age of 16 years and 297 days. He made his professional debut for Troyes in a 0–0 Ligue 2 tie with AC Ajaccio on 17 May 2019. Diouf signed a four-year contract to join Stade de Reims starting 1 July 2019. International career Born in France, Diouf is of Senegalese descent. Diouf represented the France U19s at the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship The 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2018) was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (67th edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth foot .... References External links * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diouf, Yehvann 1999 births Living people People from Montreui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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