Marabout-Soninke Jihad ca. 1842-1875

Acting Governor Ingram was stopped from making more treaties with kings on the upper reaches of the [Gambia] river in 1842 only by bitter fighting between two Muslim sects in the area, the Marabout and Soninke. Warfare between the Muslim sects began to spread. In 1869, the Sonike-Smarabout fighting continued. In 1875, the Soninke-Marabout wars ended in that year with the forcible conversion by the Marabout leader and slave dealer, Fodi Kabba, of the Soninke king, Bojang, into a Marabout.

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West Africa, 14-6.

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