Yang-Yang is a village in northern Senegal, the seat of the eponymous

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since 1976. It was made the capital of the

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in 1865 under Bakane Tam Khary Dialor.

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Alboury Ndiaye Alboury Ndiaye (also spelled Albury Njay) was the last ''Buurba'' of an independent Jolof Kingdom, and was famous for his determined resistance to the French conquest of Senegal. Early life Alboury Ndiaye was born in about 1848, the same year th ...

built a tata in the town to defend it, using a labor force of 3000 men. The defenses successfully repelled an attach by Bara Ba, cousin of

Shaikh Amadou Ba Shaikh Amadou Ba (also spelled Shaixu Amadu, or known as Amadu Mahdiyu) was a powerful Tijani prophetic leader in what is now northern Senegal, active from 1868 to 1875. At the peak of his power he controlled several pre-colonial states, before ...

, in 1875. Yang-Yang Tata Map

Yang-Yang was captured and burned by a French column led by

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in May 1890, bringing Jolof into the French colonial empire as a protectorate. Yang-Yang was the site of the first colonial school in Jolof, founded in 1897. The remains of the tata, palace, and a stele marking the location of the

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with several prominent graves are on the list of National Historic Monuments of Senegal.Arrêté ministériel n°8836 MCPHC-DPC en date du 12 septembre 2007, Journal officiel du Sénégal. The former palace hosts the Museum of the History of Jolof and Franco-Senegalese Friendship, founded by Mansour Bouna Ndiaye, son of the last Buurba of Jolof.

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*{{cite book , last1=Charles , first1=Eunice A. , title=Precolonial Senegal : the Jolof Kingdom, 1800-1890 , date=1977 , publisher=African Studies Center, Boston University , location=Brookline, MA , url=https://archive.org/details/precolonialseneg00char/page/n15/mode/2up , access-date=15 July 2023 Populated places in Saint-Louis region Archaeological sites in Senegal