Alboury Ndiaye (also spelled Albury Njay) was the last Buurba of an independent Jolof Kingdom, and was famous for his determined resistance to the French conquest of Senegal.
Alboury Ndiaye was born in about 1848, the same year that bergel (minister) Makura Niang, who had been ruling Jolof from behind the scenes for decades, died, leaving a chaotic power vacuum that lasted into the 1870s.
[2] In 1851 his father Biram Penda Diémé Ndioté Ndiaye was killed at the battle of Nguenenen, and his mother Seynabou Diop fled with him to her native Ndiambour province in Cayor.
[6] In 1870 another Islamic reformer, Shaikh Amadou Ba of the Imamate of Futa Toro, again tried to convince the buurba to convert first with letters and then with an army.
[10] Ndiaye re-established firm royal control in Jolof, ended the frequent raiding, promoted trade and agricultural production, and continued the Islamization of the country.
He returned in 1881 along with a rival claimant to the throne of Jolof, but Alboury and Lat Jor defeated and killed them at the battle of Jame Njay.
To prevent this, a column led by Alfred Dodds marched on Yang-Yang in May 1890, and Ndiaye moved eastwards across the Ferlo Desert to Futa Toro.
[19] Alboury attempted to lead a group of Senegalese emigrants back to their homeland but they were intercepted by Dodds before they could cross the Senegal river.