house death_date death_place birth_place religion issue article_title name type
the royal house of boureh gnilane joof 21 december 1923 at diakhao diakhao , kingdom of sine , present-day serer religion el hajj farba diouf maad a sinig kumba ndoffene fa ndeb joof
 maad a sinig kumba ndoffene fa ndeb joof monarch
maad a sinig kumba ndoffene fa ndeb joof

maad a sinig kumba ndoffene fa ndeb joof , also known as kumba ndoffene joof ii or `` bour sine coumba ndoffène fandepp diouf '' , was a king of sine -lrb- now in present-day senegal -rrb- .
maad a sinig -lrb- also : `` mad a sinig '' or `` maad sine '' -rrb- translates as `` king of sine '' , `` maad '' meaning king in the serer language .
the surname joof is the english spelling in the gambia .
diouf is the french spelling in senegal -lrb- see : joof family -rrb- .
there is no consensus regarding the exact date that maad kumba ndoffene fa ndeb succeeded to the throne .
according to some , he reigned from 1898 to 1924 which correlates with the written sources available at the time .
other historians propose that , he reigned from 1897 or 1898 to 1923 .
this version agrees pretty much with the oral tradition of the serer people .
according serer tradition , the king was very ill before his death and ruled for 27 winters -lrb- 27 years -rrb- before his successor - maad a sinig mahecor joof succeeded to the throne .
when the king died , there was a period of mourning and it took a little while to prepare for the coronation ceremony of maad a sinig mahecor joof according to serer custom and tradition .
maad mahecor joof ascended to the throne in 1924 , more precisely , according to some , on 28 january 1924 .
regarding the year maad a sinig kumba ndoffene fa ndeb joof died , there is consensus that it was in 1923 , more specifically on 21 december 1923 at diakhao .
maad a sinig kumba ndoffene fa ndeb joof should not be confused with maad a sinig kumba ndoffene famak joof , also known as coumba ndoffène i , who reigned from 1853 to august 1871 .
the prefix `` famak '' -lrb- or `` fa mak '' -rrb- means `` the elder '' in the serer language .
`` fa ndeb '' -lrb- also : `` fandepp '' , `` fa ndepp '' or `` fandeb '' -rrb- means `` the young '' in serer .
these prefixes were later additions -lrb- during and after the reigne of maad a sinig kumba ndoffene fa ndeb -rrb- to differentiate the two kings of sine who shared the same name and surname .
