Mö Mboj Maalik Mboj (var : ''Mö Mbody Maalik'') was the last King of

Waalo Walo ( wo, Waalo) was a kingdom on the lower Senegal River in West Africa, in what are now Senegal and Mauritania. It included parts of the valley proper and areas north and south, extending to the Atlantic Ocean. To the north were Moorish emirat ...

prior to its fall to the French in 1855. The pre-colonial Kingdom of Waalo now lies within modern-day

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. The military conquest of Waalo in 1855 under

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Ndate Yalla and her husband Tassé was one of many expeditions by the French colonialists in Senegambia but more so in Senegal. Moorish intervention in the political affairs of the

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Kingdom of Waalo propelled French military intervention, which led to the collapse of the royal dynasty and the disestablishment of the country. The conquered Kingdom of Waalo was by 1855, under French rule. Barry, Boubacar, "Le royaume du Waalo": le

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avant la conquête, Karthala, 1985, pp 41, 265, 276, Mö Mboj Maalik Mboj succeeded to the throne as Brak (''king of Waalo''), ruling from 1840 to 1855. On his paternal line, he was a member of the reigning Mboj (var : Mbooj) paternal dynasty of Waalo. On his maternal line, he partains to the ''Loggar'' matriclan. The ''Loggars'' (of Moor/Maure originBarry, p 73) were one of the three reigning maternal dynasties of Waalo, the other two being '' Joos'' (of Serer origin via

Lingeer Ndoye Demba Linguere Ndoye Demba Joos Fadiou, also known as Ndoye Demba in Senegambian dynastic history, was a Serer princess from the Kingdom of Sine (now part of present-day Senegal), from the later half of the 14th century to the 15th century. The roya ...

, founded in the 14th century) and ''Tedyek''Many variations, including : ''Teedyekk'', see Barry (of

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origin).

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*Barry, Boubacar, "Le royaume du Waalo": le Sénégal avant la conquête, Karthala, 1985, pp 41, 265, 276,

(Retrieved : 8 July 2012) *Wade, Amadou, "Chronique du Walo Sénégalais (1186-1855)", B. Cissé trans., V. Monteil, editor, Bulletin de l' Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, IFAN, série B, vol. 26, nos 3/4 (1941, 1964) *Ajayi, J. F. Ade, "Africa in the Nineteenth Century Until the 1880s", Volume 6, Editors : J. F. Ade Ajayi,

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. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa, University of California Press ( 1989), p 639, {{DEFAULTSORT:Mo Mboj Maalik Mboj Year of birth missing Year of death missing 19th-century monarchs in Africa Senegalese royalty Gambian royalty

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