Maad a Sinig explained

Maad a Sinig (variations : Mad a Sinig, 'Maad Sine, Maat Sine, Bour Sine, Bur Sine, etc.) means king of Sine. The ancient Kingdom of Sine, now part of Senegal, was a pre-colonial Serer kingdom . Their kings were titled Maad or Maad (also spelled Mad or Maat). The royal title Maad is sometimes used interchangeably with their ancient kings and landowners - the Lamanes.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Between 1350 and 1969 (the Guelowar period - the last maternal dynasty in Serer country), more than fifty Serer kings have been crowned Maad a Sinig.

Kings of Sine titled Maad a Sinig

Notes and References

  1. Oliver, Roland, Fage, John Donnelly & Sanderson, G. N. The Cambridge History of Africa, Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 214
  2. Faal, Dawda, Peoples and empires of Senegambia: Senegambia in history, AD 1000-1900, Saul's Modern Printshop, 1991, p. 17
  3. Ajayi, F. Ade & Crowder, Michael. History of West Africa, Volume 1. Longman, 1985, p. 468
  4. Galvan, Dennis C., The State Must be Our Master of Fire, University of California Press, 2004, p. 270
  5. [Marcel Mahawa Diouf|Diouf, Marcel Mahawa]
  6. Fata Ndiaye, « La saga du peuple sérère et l'Histoire du Sine », in Éthiopiques (revue), numéro 54, vol. 7, 2e semestre 1991 http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?article1245
  7. Diouf, Chronique du royaume du Sine, loc. cit., p. 712-733
  8. Klein, Martin A., Islam and Imperialism in Senegal. Sine-Saloum, 1847-1914, Edinburgh University Press, 1968, p. XV
  9. Sheridan, Michael J. et Nyamweru, Celia, African sacred groves: ecological dynamics & social change, James Currey, 2008, p. 141

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