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Ahmadou Bamba

Ahmadou Bamba

1853-1927 · Senegal, West Africa · Modern

Founded the Mouride Sufi order and promoted nonviolent resistance to French colonial rule.

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Senegal, West Africa
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Founded the Mouride Sufi order and promoted nonviolent resistance to French colonial rule.

Ahmadou Bamba (1853-1927) endures among the great of Senegal, West Africa. Founded the Mouride Sufi order and promoted nonviolent resistance to French colonial rule. Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

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