Regional/Cultural Day
Fete du Baobab
Celebrates the baobab tree, known in Wolof as buuri, which is central to Senegalese life. The fruit, called monkey bread, is used to make bouye, a tangy drink sold on every street corner in Dakar. The leaves are used in cooking, the bark for rope, and the hollow trunk sometimes serves as a shelter or burial site. Villages across the Casamance and the Saloum Delta hold ceremonies honoring the tree that some communities believe houses spirits.