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The Serer people are an ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. They make up the third largest ethnic group in Senegal and can also be found in the West. Their current population is over 1.8 million (2011). According to some scholars, they are among the oldest inhabitants of the Senegambia Region. The Serer group comprises the Sereer (the Serer people or Seex), Niominka, Ndut, Saafi, Noon, Laalaa and Palor. The Sereers are the most numerous among the Serer group. Although all the Serer group are ethnically Serers, some of this group do not speak the Serer language but speak Cangin languages. The Sereers speak the Serer language, and the Niominkas speak one of the dialects of the Serer language. The Serer precolonial Kingdoms included the : Kingdom of Sine, Kingdom of Saloum and Kingdom of Baol. The Kingdom of Baol was previously ruled by the Serer paternal dynasties such as the Joof family and the Wagadou maternal dynasty (Bagadou in Serer) at the time of the Ghana Empire. The Wagadou's were princesses from the Ghana Empire who married into the Serer noble families. These old Serer paternal noble clans descended from the ancient Lamanes (the old kings and landed gentry among the Serer noble classes). Traditionally, the Serers are landowners, mixed-farmers, fishermen and boat builders. Many of Senegal and Gambia's notable people come from this ethnic group. The famous Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and the Gambian historian Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof are from this group. Although there are some Serers who are Christians or Muslims, many Serers adhere to Serer religion especially in the Sine area of Senegal. The Serers (and the Jolas) are the last to embrace Islam among the Senegambian ethnic groups and spent nearly a thousand years resisting Islamization. Serer medieval to 19th century history is characterized by resisting Islamization.

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. The Lamanes ("master of the land" or "chief owner of the soil" in the Serer language) were the landed gentry as well the title of ancient kings of the Serer people of the Senegambia region which includes present-day Senegal and The Gambia. Their noble council generally referred to as The Great Council of Lamanes was made up of Serer Lamanes (kings) who divided the Senegambia region into Lamanats (provinces or kingdoms) which they ruled. They were the Lamanic class. One of their constitutional duties were to hear legal cases like a Court of Appeal.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal (in office : 6 September 1960 – 31 December 1980). Succeeded by Abdou Diouf.

Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal. Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. His father Basile Diogoye Senghor was a well-to-do businessman and a member of the bourgeois Serer tribe. He also had links to Serer royalty, a descendant of Prince Tukura Badiar Senghor from the Kingdom of Sine (c. 13th century).

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The Star of Yoonir, symbol of the Universe in Serer cosmology. Commonly known as the Star of Sirius.

The Serer religion, a ƭat Roog (the way of the Divine) is the original religious beliefs, practices and teachings of the Serer people. The Serers believe in a universal Supreme Deity called Rog (variation : Roog) also known as Rog Sene. Serer religious beliefs encompasses ancient chants and poems; veneration and offerings to the Serer Gods, Goddesses, Serer Saints and ancestral spirits (Pangool), astronomy, initiation rites, medicine cosmology and history of the Serer people. Rog is both everywhere and nowhere. That is why there is no house of Rog. The Serers pray to Rog (through intercessors), but do not make direct animal sacrifices to Rog.

There is no heaven or hell in Serer religion. The immortality of the soul and reincarnation (ciiɗ in Serer language) is a strongly held belief in Serer religion. The Pangool - ancestral spirits of those who lived pure lives after they have passed on to the spirit world (Jaaniiw) are canonised as Holy Saints, and will be called upon and venerated, and have the power to intercede between the living and the Divine. Acceptance by the ancestors who have long departed and the ability to intercede with the Divine is as close to heaven after one passes over. Rejection by the ancestors and becoming a lost and wondering soul is as close to hell in Serer religion. Template:/box-footer

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Serer religion

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  • Gamo
  • Tourou Peithie
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  • Raan - Thursday 3rd May at Tukar, Senegal.
  • Sam Southieh
  • The royal struggle
  • The massacre of Cadde
  • The session struggle at Ndiaye-Ndiaye
  • Khanghere
  • Diouck
  • The consultation at Ngalagne
  • The session struggle Jiloor - Jijaak

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Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof


I have been born in knowledge.
Geidj Faye (a Saltigue)

(Oberdiek, Ulrich, "Anthropological Abstracts", Volume 2, p 126, LIT Verlag Münster (2004), ISBN 3825880109)

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Credit: Les Nationales Archives Du Senegal

Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Fa Ndeb Joof (reigned: c. 1898 - 1924)

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Anthem : Fañ na NGORO Roga deb no kholoum O Fañ-in Fan-Fan ta tathiatia. - [No one can do anything against his neighbour without the will of the Divine (Rog)].
Motto : Dial - fi - mayou to Tiin. – [Selflessly serve and produce].

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