Mahmadu Lamine — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on al-Hajj Mahmadu Lamine Drame, the Soninke marabout who led rebellions against the French colonial government in present-day Senegal; it recounts his birth between 1835 and 1840 at Goundiourou near Kayes in Mali, his education, hajj and imprisonment by Ahmadu Tall, his uprisings of 1886–1887, the siege of Bakel, the fall of Toubakouta and his death in December 1887.