theories for "Senegal" abound. A popular one, first proposed by Fr. David Boilat (1853), was that "Senegal" comes from the Wolof phrase sunu gaal, meaning...
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205-208. Magil 1984, pp. 154-157. Boilat, David, abbé (1814—1901) Oxford Reference. Accessed July 23 2024. Boilat, David (1858). Grammaire de la Langue Woloffe...
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Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké Alfred-Amédée Dodds Jean-Baptiste Labat, Abbé David Boilat, Daniel Brattier, the fathers Michel Adanson, naturalist Louis Faidherbe...
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English as Jollof rice. The origins of the Wolof people are obscure, states David Gamble, a professor of anthropology and African studies specializing in...
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pp. 38–64. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1581013. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020. David C. Conrad (2009). Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay...
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An 1853 painting of a Tukulor man and woman (by David Boilat)....
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Tukulor, Songhay, Dogon, Senufo, Minianka, Moors, and Tuareg." Phillips, David J. (2001). Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World. William...
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Map of the ethnic groups of Senegal drawn by David Boilat (1853)...
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Benoist et Abdoulaye Camara, op. cit., pp. 15 and 139. (in French) Abbé David Boilat, « Notice sur Tanguegueth ou Rufisque », Esquisses sénégalaises, Karthala...
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official documents between Waalo and France. Immortalized in a sketch by David Boilat, she is one of the very few Senegambian precolonial nobles depicted visually...
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