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Mbegan Ndour
Mbegan Ndour was the founder of the Serer kingdom of Saloum in present-day Senegal, around 1494. A warrior linked through his mother to the Guelowar of the Kingdom of Sine, he is said in tradition to have killed Eli Bana, the Muslim cleric who then ruled the region. He made Kahone his capital, and Saloum grew rich from the salt and slave trades.
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