Mö Mboj Maalik Mboj Explained

Mö Mboj Maalik Mboj (var : Mö Mbody Maalik) was the last King of Waalo, a pre-colonial kingdom in what is now northern Senegal.[1] He succeeded to the throne as Brak (king of Waalo) in 1840 and ruled until Waalo was conquered by the French in 1855.[2] [3]

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.[1] The Loggars (of Moorish/Maure origin[1]) were one of the three reigning maternal dynasties of Waalo, the other two being Joos[4] (of Serer origin[1] via Lingeer Ndoye Demba, founded in the 14th century) and Tedyek[5] (of Fula origin[1]).

During Mbodj's rein, Waalo was relatively weak, caught between the Trarza Emirate and the French based in Saint-Louis. Lingeer 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.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Barry, Boubacar, "Le royaume du Waalo": le Sénégal avant la conquête, Karthala, 1985,
  2. Wade, Amadou, "Chronique du Walo Sénégalais (1186-1855)", B. Cissé trans., V. Monteil, editor, Bulletin de l'IFAN, série B, vol. 26, nos 3/4 (1941, 1964)
  3. Ajayi, J. F. Ade, "Africa in the Nineteenth Century Until the 1880s", Volume 6, Editors : J. F. Ade Ajayi, Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa, University of California Press (1989), p 639,
  4. Many variations, including : Dyoos, see Barry and Lingeer Ndoye Demba
  5. Many variations, including : Teedyekk, see Barry

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