Walaldé

Walaldé lies in the middle Senegal valley on the Île à Morfil, a long island between branches of the river. The village remembers an ancient lineage of chiefs bearing the title farba, and local tradition associates its past with an older settlement across the river at Tékane. The surrounding valley has a much deeper human history: an ancient site near Walaldé has yielded evidence of ironworking in the first millennium before the common era.