Rotary Club of Dakar, the First Club of Senegal

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Rotary Club of Dakar, the First Club of Senegal

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The Rotary movement reached the West African sub-region for the first time in French-speaking Senegal in 1939. The Rotary Club of Dakar was chartered on 10 July, 1939. Rotary gradually spread through Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon, until it reached the first English-speaking country, Ghana, in 1958.

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