Fodé Kaba Doumbouya, also spelled Dumbuya, was a Diakhanke marabout in the 19th century, one of the leaders resisting French and British colonial expandion in Senegambia.
[1] His father, Fode Bakary, was a prominent marabout and Islamic scholar who was invited first to the court of Faranba Tamba of Kabendu and later to Kerewane, near Pata, under the aegis of the local Nyancho ruler Silati Kelefa.
[6][3] In territory he controlled, Fode Kaba instituted a government based on Islamic principles, building mosques, posting talibes in conquered settlements, and banning the tapping of trees for palm wine.
[6][7] 1890 the British wanted to rid themselves of Fode Kaba, whose raids were harming the agricultural productivity of the emerging Gambia Protectorate, but the French sheltered him.
British attempts to mediate escalated to violence, and the chief involved fled to Fode Kaba, who refused to surrender him to the colonial authorities.