Aline Sitoe Diatta

Aline Sitoe Diatta (also Aline Sitow Diatta or Alyn Sytoe Jata; 1920 – 22 May 1944) was a Senegalese heroine of the opposition to the French colonial empire, and a strong young female symbol of resistance and liberty.

Diatta left the village of Kabrousse to work in Ziguinchor, later moving on to Dakar and making her residence in Médina.

In 1942 the French government began seizing as much as half the area's rice harvest for their war effort.

Diatta led a major religious movement in the region among worshipers of the supreme being, Emitai, in Senegal, Gambia, and Portuguese Guinea during this period.

The coin refers to her as "La femme qui était plus qu'un homme" ("the woman who was more than a man").