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Alboury Ndiaye — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Alboury Ndiaye (born c. 1848 at Tyal in the Kingdom of Jolof, died 1901 at Dosso, Niger), the last Buurba of an independent Jolof and famed for his determined resistance to the French conquest of Senegal; it recounts his upbringing in Cayor alongside his older cousin Lat Jor, their joint conversion to Islam under the marabout Maba Diakhou Ba in the 1860s, his rule from 1875 and Islamization of the country, his defence of Jolof until the fall of Yang-Yang in 1890, his journey east and his death at Dosso.

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islam.museum contributors. “Alboury Ndiaye — English Wikipedia”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/source/wikipedia-alboury-ndiaye-en/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.

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