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Al-Hajj Umar Tall

c. 1794-1864 · West Africa · Modern

Islamic scholar and founder of the Tukulor Empire in West Africa.

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West Africa
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Islamic scholar and founder of the Tukulor Empire in West Africa.

Al-Hajj Umar Tall (c. 1794-1864) endures among the great of West Africa. Islamic scholar and founder of the Tukulor Empire in West Africa. 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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