Lat Jor (Lat Dior) — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Lat Jor Ngoné Latir Jop (Lat Dior, c. 1842–1886), damel of Cayor and national hero of Senegal for his resistance to French colonialism; it recounts his Guedj maternal lineage, his upbringing in a nominally Muslim milieu and Quranic schooling, his first reign, his becoming a disciple (talibe) of the marabout Maba Diakhou Ba and remaining a practicing Muslim for the rest of his life, his return to Cayor, his fight against the Dakar–Saint-Louis railway, and his death at Dekhele.