She was the wife of politician Demba Diop, Minister of Youth and Sport under president Léopold Sédar Senghor, who was assassinated in 1967.
Caroline Faye Diop was born in Foundiougne, Fatick, then in French West Africa, on July 11, 1923.
[1] She was the daughter of Louis Diène Faye, a chartered accountant and activist of the SFIO, one of the founders of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc, and Fatim Diop.
Faye Diop became a teacher in Louga in 1945, then in Thiès, Matam, and finally in Mbour, where she directed a girls' school from 1951 to 1962.
[1] In 1957, at a party congress held in Thiès, she protested to President Senghor that despite the number of women present, none had spoken.