Sanghana

Sanghana was the name Arab geographers gave to the Senegal River estuary. Godala traders worked the salt deposits of Awlil and traded with Takrur.

In the fourteenth century Sanghana was the westernmost march of the Mali Empire. In 1638 the French established a trading settlement at the Senegal's mouth, moving it to Saint-Louis in 1659. The rulers of Waalo faced the French there and controlled river trade in the mid-eighteenth century.