Alfa Mamadou Lamine Dramé — Soninke resistance

1885–1887 · Bakel

Mamadou Lamine Dramé was an Islamic scholar of the Soninke people, in the Bakel region of eastern Senegal. Between 1885 and 1887, he led an armed resistance against the French colonial advance in Upper Gambia. He founded an independent state at Dianna. He fell in December 1887. His name remains tied to the memory of resistance in eastern Senegal.

Sources

• Soninkara — Mamadou Lamine Dramé
• Persée — « Le marabout El Hadj Mamadou Lamine d’après les archives françaises » (1969)
• A. Bathily, Mamadou Lamine Drame et la résistance dans le Haut-Sénégal (1885-1887)
• Persée — M. A. Gomez, Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad (compte rendu, 1994)

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