known as Seydu Jeliya, b. c. 1830, d. April 1895
Sources
Gallieni (1885), Ch. XIX; Robinson (1985), 349; Hanson (1996), 13, 162; CCIM, 186-90 (art. of Bokar N’Diaye).
Biography
His ancestry goes back to the Ture lineage of Hayre (Podor) in Futa Toro. His grandfather, Siré had been Almamy of Futa Toro, c. 1823-5. His father Aḥmad had married Jeliya, daughter of Cerno Bismor Lamine Abdoulaye [al-Amīn b. ʿAbd Allāh] of the Sakho lineage of Halaybe, who ran a noted Qurʾānic school at Boghe, and who was a teacher of al-ḥājj ʿUmar. Her mother was the lat…