Mö Mboj Maalik Mboj (var : ''Mö Mbody Maalik''
) was the last King of
Waalo
Waalo () was a kingdom on the lower Senegal River in West Africa, in what is 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 emirates; to the ...
, a pre-colonial kingdom in what is now northern
Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...
.
[ Barry, Boubacar, "Le royaume du Waalo": le Sénégal avant la conquête, Karthala, 1985, ] He succeeded to the throne as
Brak (''king of Waalo'') in 1840 and ruled until Waalo was conquered by the French in 1855.
Mboj was a member of the reigning paternal dynasty of Waalo on his father's side. On his maternal line, he was a part of the ''Loggar'' matriclan.
The ''Loggars'' (of
Moorish/Maure origin
) were one of the three reigning maternal dynasties of Waalo, the other two being ''
Joos'' (of
Serer origin
via
Lingeer Ndoye Demba, founded in the 14th century) and ''Tedyek''
[Many variations, including : ''Teedyekk'', see Barry] (of
Fula origin
).
During Mbodj's rein, Waalo was relatively weak, caught between the
Trarza Emirate and the
French based in
Saint-Louis.
Lingeer
Lingeer (also: ''Linger'' or Linguère) was the title given to the mother or sister of a king in the Serer kingdoms of Sine, Saloum, and previously the Kingdom of Baol; and the Wolof kingdoms of Cayor, Jolof, Baol and Waalo in pre-colonial S ...
Ndaté Yalla Mbodj was a major power in the kingdom as well. In 1855 the French, after years of encroaching on the country, invaded and conquered Waalo, overthrowing the royal family.
See also
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Lingeer Fatim Beye
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Lingeer Ndoye Demba
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Joos Maternal Dynasty
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Waalo
Waalo () was a kingdom on the lower Senegal River in West Africa, in what is 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 emirates; to the ...
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Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof
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Lat Dior
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History of Senegal
The history of Senegal is commonly divided into a number of periods, encompassing the prehistoric era, the precolonial period, colonialism, and the contemporary era.
Paleolithic
The earliest evidence of human life is found in the valley of the ...
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History of the Gambia
References
Bibliography
*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,
Unesco
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. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa, University of California Press ( 1989), p 639,
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