Alboury Ndiaye — French Wikipedia

French Wikipedia article on Alboury Ndiaye (c. 1847–1901), Buurba of Jolof from 1875 to 1890 and a great figure of resistance to French colonial penetration in Senegal; it recounts his upbringing at the Cayor court with his uncle Lat Dior and his fighting beside him and Maba Diakhou Ba, his enthronement at Yang-Yang in 1875, his 1885 agreement with the French and refusal to send his son to the hostages' school, the fall of Jolof in 1890, and his long journey east with Ahmadu Tall until his death near Dosso, where the local tradition it reports has him die by a poisoned arrow, his arm buried at Dosso.

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