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Jolof
Jolof ( or ) may refer to either of
- Jolof Empire, a West African successor state to the Mali Empire in modern Senegal from the 14th to 16th centuries
- Kingdom of Jolof, a rump survival of the earlier empire from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Usage examples of "jolof".
The Europeans essentially roamed the shores of West Africa, taking advantage in turn of the collapse of the Jolof empire in Senegam-bia, of the conquests of the Manez and Fulani peoples in the region of Sierra Leone and Guinea, of the expansions of the Benin and Oyo states in the vicinity of Yorubaland, and of the conquests of the Ashanti and various Akan peoples along the Gold Coast of Ghana.