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History. Senegal was part of the Ghana Empire in the 8th century and the Djolof kingdom, in the area between the Senegal River and modern-day Dakar, during the 13th and 14th centuries. ... In the run-up to independence in 1960, Senegal joined French Sudan to form the Federation of Mali.