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The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization. Berg (2002). ISBN 1-85973-557-6; Gellar, Sheldon. Senegal: an African nation between Islam and the West (Boulder: Westview Press, 1982). Idowu, H. Oludare. The Conseil General in Senegal, 1879–1920, Ibadan: University of Ibadan, 1970 (Thèse) Leland, Conley Barrows.
The following is a list of rulers of the Jolof Empire. The Jolof Empire (French language – Diolof or Djolof) was a West African state that ruled parts of Senegal and The Gambia from 1360 [1] to 1890. The rulers were known as "Buur-ba Jolof". Their surnames were Njie (or Ndiaye).
The Jolof Empire (Arabic: امبراطورية جولوف), also known as Great Jolof, [1] or the Wolof Empire, was a Wolof state that ruled parts of West Africa situated in modern-day Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Mauritania from around the 12th century [2] [3] [4] to 1549.
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
French Reclaiming of Senegalese Possessions Ruled From Saint-Louis, Senegal and Gorée Island. Royal government, then French First Republic, then French First Empire. From 1789 under Ministry of the Navy, controlling all posts to Gabon. French Governors: 1779 to 1809 11 February 1779 – Mar 1779: Armand Louis de Gontaut
According to legend, Maysa Wali elected the legendary Ndiadiane Ndiaye (Serer proper: Njaajaan Njaay) in c. 1360 as first Emperor of the Jolof Empire. He was the first king of modern Senegal to voluntarily gave his allegiance to Ndiadiane Ndiaye and asked others to do so, thereby making Sine a vassal of the Jolof Empire. [43]
Extent of the Mali Empire (circa 1,350 C.E.) 1,235 C.E. — 1,250 C.E. Early imperial expansion of the Mali Empire. 1,235 C.E. — 1,255 C.E. Tiramakhan's western campaign. Tiramakhan, also known as Tiramaghan, of the Traore clan, was ordered by Sonjata to bring an army west after the king of Jolof had allowed horses to be stolen from Mandekalu ...
Morocco was the last place in the French empire where Tirailleurs Sénégalais were permitted to travel with their West African wives, part of a broader French push for professionalism and the trend of national armies in Europe to discontinue their use of auxiliary services and provisions by civilians. [12]