Alboury Ndiaye was the last Buurba of an independent Jolof Kingdom, and was famous for his determined resistance to the French conquest of Senegal.
13 Facts About Alboury Ndiaye
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Alboury Ndiaye was born in about 1848, the same year that bergel Makura Niang, who had been ruling Jolof from behind the scenes for decades, died, leaving a chaotic power vacuum that lasted into the 1870s.
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In 1851 his father Biram Penda Dieme Ndiote Ndiaye was killed at the battle of Nguenenen, and his mother Seynabou Diop fled with him to her native Ndiambour province in Cayor.
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Alboury Ndiaye was still a child in 1855 when France began actively expanding their colonial footprint in Senegambia.
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Alboury Ndiaye then became buurba in all but name, with an elder uncle as a figurehead.
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Alboury Ndiaye re-established firm royal control in Jolof, ended the frequent raiding, promoted trade and agricultural production, and continued the Islamization of the country.
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Alboury Ndiaye fortified the capital at Yang-Yang with a tata.
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Alboury Ndiaye returned in 1881 along with a rival claimant to the throne of Jolof, but Alboury and Lat Jor defeated and killed them at the battle of Jame Njay.
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Alboury Ndiaye supported his cousin Lat Jor in a dispute with the French over the construction of a railroad, and helped him raid into Waalo and Cayor after the French had deposed him.
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In 1886 the new French-backed Damel of Cayor invaded Jolof, but Alboury Ndiaye soundly defeated him at the battle of Gile.
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Alboury Ndiaye attempted to lead a group of Senegalese emigrants back to their homeland but they were intercepted by Dodds before they could cross the Senegal river.
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Alboury Ndiaye rejoined Ahmadu and they moved east with a small band, trying to re-establish themselves before the French caught up.
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Alboury Ndiaye ultimately was killed in battle against the French in Dosso, Niger in 1901.