WHERE
IT ALL
BEGAN
The name says everything. Teranga — the Wolof word for the spirit of hospitality and generosity that defines Senegalese culture. It was the perfect name for the event that would launch a continental movement, because this is exactly what ATT is built on: welcome, warmth and openness.
Kédougou was chosen deliberately. One of Senegal's most remote and spectacular regions, it offered everything a founding edition needed: red laterite trails that carved through ancient hills, mountains that seemed to touch the sky, rivers that demanded respect, and communities that welcomed strangers with open hands.
When the riders assembled for the first time, something happened that no one had fully anticipated. The dust settled on the bivouac camp each evening, and around those fires, the brotherhood was forged. Riders who had never met shared food, stories, mechanical knowledge and laughter. Africa Trail Trophy became real that night — not in the planning, but in the living.
