Oumar Kane, citing oral histories, proposes that the Jaaogo dynasty of Takrur originated there, ruling until roughly 1000CE.

[1] In the 13th century, Namandirou reappeared under the name Njarmeew, ruled by the wolof Ndaw family who had originated north of the Senegal river.

After a long war, the Bëlëp (also Ber-lab, or king) of Namandirou was killed in a pitched battle, and the kingdom was conquered and given to a member of the royal family as a fief.

[4][2][5] Yoro Dyao records that, in the early 16th century, Koli Tengella defeated Ber-lab Wali Mberu Mbacke and drove the remaining population out, but he may be conflating Koli's attack on the eastern Jolof Empire with the destruction of the independent kingdom half a century earlier.

[6] This attack, among other things, helped weaken Jolof and set the stage for its disintegration at the Battle of Danki.