Mamadou Lamine Dramé — French Wikipedia

French Wikipedia article on El Hadj Mamadou Lamine Dramé, the Sarakole Muslim scholar and military leader who tried between 1885 and 1888 to found a Soninke state between Mali and Senegal; it recounts his birth between 1835 and 1840 at Goundiourou, his youthful capture, his service in El Hadj Omar's army, his ten-year religious exile to Mecca and Constantinople, his uprising against the French and attack on the fort of Bakel in April 1886, and his death from his wounds on 9 December 1887 after Toubakouta.