Kingdom of Jolof

The Kingdom of Jolof was the Wolof rump state of the Senegalese interior, what remained when the Jolof Empire broke at the Battle of Danki in 1549. For nearly two hundred years before that day the Buurba Jolof had gathered tribute from the vassal kings of Cayor, Baol, Sine, Saloum and Waalo, who had joined the confederacy of their own will. At Danki the lord of Cayor beat the Buurba, and the empire dissolved into its jealous parts, leaving Jolof proper, a modest kingdom about Linguere, to keep the old title without the old power. The Buurbas played the marabouts against the ceddo, the French against the Moors, and held the peanut basin for three more centuries. The Buurba's title outlived his power by three centuries, a proverb of hollow kingship across Senegambia. In the late nineteenth century the French made the kingdom a protectorate, and in 1890 the hollow crown lapsed, its lands passing to the colony of Senegal.