Sokone

Sokone is a town in the Fatick region of central Senegal, on the south-eastern edge of the Sine-Saloum Delta amid mangrove country, on the N5 road roughly 50 km south of Kaolack. During the colonial period Sokone was a groundnut port, and remnants of that era survive around the town — old colonial trading houses and warehouses, including former outposts of firms such as Elie Chavanel et Fils, the Morelle et Fils comptoir, and the CFAO — alongside groundnut fields in the surrounding countryside. The area's early settlers were predominantly Mandinka, later joined through the 20th century by Wolof, Fulani, Serer, and Soninke (Sarakollé) communities; Serer people, tracing migrations into the Sine-Saloum from around 1,000 AD, form the area's dominant ethnic group today. Agriculture and fishing remain the main local livelihoods.

By Car / Road

Sokone is on the N5 road linking Kaolack and Banjul (The Gambia).

• Colonial-era trading houses and former warehouses around town, remnants of Sokone's groundnut-port history.

• Toubacouta — a nearby gateway to the Saloum Delta's ecotourism lodges.
• Kaolack — a larger market town to the north on the N5.