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Marième Faye Sall
Marieme Faye Sall, also spelled Marème Faye Sall, is a Senegalese public figure who has served as the First Lady of Senegal since 2012. Sall, the wife of President of Senegal, President Macky Sall, is the country's first First Lady to possess fully Senegalese heritage by birth and ethnicity, as her three predecessors have been of ethnic French people, French or Lebanese people, Lebanese origin. Faye Sall was born in the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal, as the fourth of her family's eight children. According to her official biography, she is of dual Fula people, Peule and Serer people, Serer descent. She attended primary school in Saint-Louis before moving to Diourbel, a city in the Diourbel Region of central Senegal with her family. She attended high school and graduated with a technical high school degree. Sall then enrolled at the Higher Institute of Technology at Cheikh Anta Diop University, where she studied electrical engineering, but did not graduate. She left Cheikh Anta Diop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Lady Of Senegal
First Lady of Senegal ( French: ''Première Dame du Sénégal'') is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Senegal. The country's current first lady is Marieme Faye Sall, wife of President Macky Sall, who had held the position since April 2, 2012. There has been no first gentleman of Senegal to date. History Senegal's inaugural first lady, Colette Hubert Senghor, wife of President Léopold Sédar Senghor, was from France. The country's second first lady, Elizabeth Diouf, is the daughter of a Lebanese father and a Senegalese mother. Like Colette Senghor, Viviane Wade, Senegal's third first lady, is an ethnic French woman from France. Marieme Faye Sall, who has held the position since 2012, is the country's first black first lady, as well as the first fully Senegalese-born and raised first lady. First ladies of Senegal See also * Senegal ** President of Senegal ** List of colonial governors of Senegal ** Politics of Senegal * Lists of office-holders References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
