Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad - The Precolonial State of Bundu

Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Bundu, under the rule of Malik Sy, developed a more pragmatic policy then its neighbours. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, this book provides the first full acount of Bundu's history.