Kaolack

Capital, administrative and commercial center of the Kaolack region.

Due to the abolition of slavery by the French administration around the 1880s, the area in which Kaolack is located was It was used for the production of peanuts. After the establishment of the Medina of Kaolack, the city became the largest religious center in this Senegalese region due to the pilgrimage to the temples that were built. The Medina of Kaolack was founded in In the 1920s, although Niasse's religious influence attracted people from outside Senegal's borders, thousands of people from West Africa visited the Medina from the early 1950s, including citizens of Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Gambia. , with reasons of spiritual initiation and religious studies.