Lat Sukaabe Fall

Lat Sukaabe was born a younger son of the Teigne of Baol, Thié Yasin Demba Noudj Fall, and Ngoné Dièye of the Gej or Guedj matrilineal clan.

[2] Beginning in the 1670s the Tubenan movement, a multi-national uprising of Muslim marabouts, had severely destabilized the traditionalist kingdoms of present-day Senegal ruled by the ceddo kings and their slave warriors.

He plied the nobles of the kingdom with gifts, securing their support, such that when his brothers came to reassert their right to rule, he dismissed them, later killing them when they began to gather forces to resist.

He crushed them at the battle of Ngangaram, where the waajor forces were led by Ngone Latir Fall, Latsukaabe's eldest daughter, while her father was sick.

[3]: 83–4 He tried and failed to bring under his control the Lebu people of the Cap-Vert peninsula, who profited handsomely from both trade and rent the French paid for Goree.

[3]: 82  The relative importance of matrilinear line increased at the expense of the patrilinear, perhaps a reflection of a backlash against Islamic customs in favor of traditional ones.