The Wolof are a large ethnic group usually located in the West African countries of Senegal and Gambia. In recent decades, however, the expansion of peanut cultivation and an acceleration towards urbanization has motivated many of the Wolof to spread out into several other West African countries. There they hope to make use of the land and find better jobs in the cities. Hundreds of years ago, the Wolof conquered many tribes in the northwestern Senegal area. By the end of the 1300s the Wolof had