@light.up.the.midni: Shaykh Ahmed ibn Muhammad ibn Habiballah M’Backé (1854–1927) is affectionately known as Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba. He was indeed someone who was “integrated within,” and helped “transform and change the whole scene” around him. He emerged in Senegal in Western Africa between two devastating eras in the history of the country—the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the beginning of French colonial conquest. Both periods wrecked havoc on the structure of African culture, society and the collective consciousness of the citizens. In the aftermath of slavery there came a new push by the French for the armed conquest of West African nations leading to the formation of “French West Africa”—a federation of eight colonial territories, Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan, (now Mali) French Guinea (now Guinea), Cote d’ivroire (Ivory Coast), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) Dahomey (now Benine and Niger). Source: The Pen and the Canon: Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba’s Nonviolent Jihad By Farah Michelle Kimball

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