Waoundé

Waoundé stands in the Senegal River valley, near the edge of the Soninke country known as Haïré. Local accounts remember it as an old Soninke settlement, once called Dirango. The river brought water to the surrounding lands, but its floods also forced the village to change its site several times, from the right bank to the left. Its history belongs to a valley shared by communities on both sides of the Senegal.