Casamance is before a whole a 300 km length river to the peaceful course, bordered of rice plantations, of palmerais and forests. Casamance, it is the country of Diolas. Peasants and large rice farmers, they remain faithful to the ancestral religion with their great traditional festivals of initiation and collection by climbing at the top of the trees the palm wine (funuk). Casamance is a country limited to north by Gambia (10 300 km2) and by Senegal, in the south by the Guinea-Bissau and Guinea, in the east by Mali and the west by the ocean maritime Atlantique.Cette frontage is long of 200 kms. Casamance is made up of Low Casamance, the Casamance Average and High Casamance.La Basse Casamance: Kassa, Fogny (Departments of Ziguinchor, Oussouye and Bignona)

The Casamance Average: Pakau, Balantacounda (Department of Sédhiou) High Casamance: Fouladou, Boundou (Departments of Kolda, Vélingara, Tamba and Kédougou)

Population Casamance counts 1,400,000 inhabitants;

 Joolas: 38% of the population, Fulani 26%, Mandingues 18%, Manjacks, Mankagnes, Bassaris and others. All these communities are jealously attached to their worship and habit in the respect of the conviviability.

 Religion 62% of the population is converted with the Islamic religion introduced by the sects kadriya spread by the family Kounta Moor at the 19th century, by Moussa Easy Baldé and Fodé Kaba Doumbouya. 24% of the population are catholic and the animism remains long-lived at Joolas and Bassaris.La tolerance acquired of the traditional religion influences the daily life and is the unit factor of all Casamançais.   To illustrate that, it is only in Casamance that Moslem, Christian or animist are buried in the same cemetery.