The Kingdom of Waalo
Subtitle: Senegal before the conquest
By: Boubacar Barry
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780966020113
Subjects: History; Colonies; Wolof (African people); Wolof; French colonies
Work titles: Rouaume du Waalo
Notes: "Originally published in French as Le Rouaume du Waalo : Le Sénégal avant la Comquête by Karthala, 1985."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Preface / by Samir Amin; title: Foreword; title: pt. I. Economic, political and social scene of Waalo in the seventeenth century. Traditional economic activities; title: The political and social institutions of the Kingdom of Waalo; title: pt. II. Waalo since 1659 until the end of the eighteenth century : the era of the slave trade and the fortified commercial trading posts. Atlantic commerce in the era of the fortified trading posts; title: The evolution of the Kingdom of Waalo from the middle to the end of the seventeenth century; title: Waalo during the last quarter of the seventeenth century : the struggle for power between Bër Caaka and Yeerim Mbañik; title: The reign of Brak Ndiak Aram Bakar, ca. 1733-57; title: Civil war and the final decline of Waalo during the first British occupation of Saint-Louis, ca. 1758-83; title: The French re-occupation of Saint-Louis (1783-1809) and the Tukulor threat in Waalo; title: pt. III. The agricultural colonization and the conquest of Waalo, ca. 1819-59. Agricultural colonization of Waalo, ca. 1819-31; title: Agricultural colonization and the economic, political and social crisis in Waalo; title: The period of conflicts after abandoning the policy of agricultural colonization, ca. 1830-40; title: The end of the Waalo Kingdom and the evolution of France's colonial politics into the Senegal River region, ca. 1840-55; title: The establishment of colonial administration; title: Conclusion; title: Postscript 1985 : the agricultural colonization of Waalo and the politics of the dams; title: Postscript 2012 : my land, my life / Sama Sama Suuf Bakkan.