Ama Gôdô Maat
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Ama Gôdô Maat (many variations : Amar Gôdômat, Amar Godomat or Bur Haman - Mad, Maad or Maat is the old title of Serer kings) was an 11th century Serer king.[1][2]
According to Serer oral tradition, Abu Bakr ibn Umar, the Almoravid leader launched a jihad in Serer country and was defeated by Ama Gôdômat. Abu Bakr ibn Umar died from a poisoned arrow in November 1087.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The battle is reported to have taken place near Khoo mak[9] in Serer country, commonly known as Lake Cayor.[10]
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- ^ (English) Faal, Dawda, Peoples and empires of Senegambia : Senegambia in history, AD 1000-1900, Saul's Modern Printshop, 1991, p. 17
- ^ (English) Ajayi, F. Ade, Crowder, Michael, History of West Africa, vol. 1, Longman, 1985, p. 468 ISBN 0-582-64683-9
- ^ Gravrand, Henry, "La Civilisation Sereer, Pangool" , p 13, Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal, 1990, ISBN 2-7236-1055-1.
- ^ Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, Bulletin, Volumes 26-27, IFAN, 1964
- ^ Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire. Mémoires de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, no. 91, section 2, IFAN, 1980
- ^ Sonko-Godwin, Patience, Ethnic groups of the Senegambia: a brief history, Sunrise Publishers, 1988. ISBN 9983-86-000-7
- ^ Diouf, Marcel Mahawa, Lances mâles : Léopold Sédar Senghor et les traditions sérères, Centre d'études linguistiques et historiques par tradition orale, Niamey, 1996, p. 54
- ^ Roland Oliver, John Donnelly Fage, & G. N. Sanderson, The Cambridge History of Africa, Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 214 ISBN 0-521-22803-4
- ^ From the Serer language which still bears its Serer name (Khoo mak / xur mak = big lake).
- ^ Gravrand, Henry, "La civilisation Sereer, VOL.1, Cosaan : les origines", Nouvelles Editions africaines, 1983, p 118, ISBN 2-7236-0877-8
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