Ouali N'Dao: the exile of Alboury N'Diaye

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Title:	Ouali N'Dao: the exile of Alboury N'Diaye
Author:	Charles, Eunice A.
Year:	1971
Periodical:	African Historical Studies
Volume:	4
Issue:	2
Pages:	373-382
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Senegal
Subjects:	traditional rulers history 1800-1899
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/216424
Abstract:	Alboury N'Diaye was the most important 19th century ruler of Djolof, one of the Wolof states in Senegambia. During his reign, from 1875 to 1890, he proved a successful leader, a skillful administrator and diplomat, and an important figure in the Islamization of Djolof. But he is more often remembered for his defiance of the French and his attempt to emigrate with his people to avoid colonial rule. Because of disagreement with the French Alboury went into exile. After a twelve-year, 1500-mile exodus, Alboury was killed in a battle near Dogondoutchli, Niger. Presented here in an oral account of Alboury's exile by Ouali N'Dao, a Djolof who actually accompanied Alboury in 1890. Notes, Map.