Ngazobil (or Ngasobil ) is a village of the Senegal, located on the Small-Coast, in the south of Dakar.

History

Since the 19th century, Ngazobil shelters a mission catholic, one of oldest of Senegal, established by the father Francis Libermann, originating in Saverne, and the Congrégation of the Holy Spirit.

The father Louis-Philippe Walter remained in 1867 there.

It is there also that the future president Léopold Sédar Senghor will be internal of 1914 with 1922: “At the 7 years age, it (my father) removed me arms of my mother and my uncle, to send to me to the catholic mission of Joal. During one year, the Father Dubois, Norman, trimmed me before making me enter to the catholic mission of Ngazobil, to 6 km in the north of Joal, on the edges of the Atlantic. ” .

The cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum was also trained there.

The Small Saint-Joseph Seminar was classified by the Historic buildings in 2003.

It is a place of pilgrimage today.

Administration

Ngazobil is in the Département of Me bour (area of Thiès).

Geography

The closest localities are Dial Diop, Point-Sarène, Ponto, Mbodiène, Ndianda, Joal-Fadiouth, Diakhanor and Djifer.

The village profits from an attractive natural framework, equipped in particular with a limestone cliff, a beautiful sandy beach and a forest park of 500 hectares sheltering of many birds (Pintade S, Perdrix), but also of the reptiles such as Boa S or Varan S, like various mammals, for example of the Singe S, the Hérisson S, the pigs-épics, the Chacal S, or the Lièvre S.

The catholic mission lays out itself of a beautiful beach of Cocotier S, where some come to fish.

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