On the other hand, Kataeb Party suffered a great loss with the death of its founder, Cheikh Pierre Gemayel in 1984.

Ahmadou Bamba, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké ( 1853 – 1927 ) ( Aamadu Bamba Mbàkke in Wolof, Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb Allāh () also known as Khadīmu ' l-Rasūl () or " The Servant of the messenger ", and as Sëriñ Tuubaa or " Cheikh of Tuubaa " in Wolof ), was a Muslim Sufi religious leader in Senegal and the founder of the large Mouride Brotherhood ( the Muridiyya ).

Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba was a mystic and religious leader who produced a prodigious quantity of poems and tracts on meditation, rituals, work, and Qur ' anic study.

He will eventually lead the Almohads when an in-law relationship occurred between him and Cheikh Abu Hafs the leader of the Masmuda.

The assailants were dressed as “ Afghans .” Survivors were quoted in the Algerian press as identifying the leader of the assailants as Aoued Abdallah, called " Cheikh Noureddine ", a head in western Algeria of the Armed Islamic Group ( GIA ).

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

After the election, Wade appointed Minister Delegate for the Budget Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré as Prime Minister on 19 June, replacing Sall, who had resigned along with his government shortly beforehand.

Cheikh Tidiane Gadio ( left ) with Celso Amorim, Foreign Minister of Brazil, in New York in 2007.

Cheikh Tidiane Gadio ( born 16 September 1956 ) is a Senegalese diplomat who served in the government of Senegal as Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2000 to October 2009.

In the 1930s, Kabylians moved in large numbers to Paris, where they established cafes where musicians like Cheikh Nourredine added modern, Western instruments like the banjo, guitar and violin to Kabylian folk melodies.

Shaikh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke, commonly known as " Cheikh Amadou Bamba " ( 1853-1927 ), is said to have founded Touba under a large tree when, in a moment of transcendence, he experienced a cosmic vision of light.

He replaced Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna, who came from the same part of eastern Mauritania as many of the accused 2003 coup plotters.

It supported Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in the March 2007 presidential election and was part of the presidential majority following his victory.

The various electoral milestones that all political parties took part in passed under good conditions, and on 25 March 2007 a new President of the Republic, Mr. Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, was elected with 52. 85 % of the vote, whose lawfulness was hailed by all observers.

In 1987, its name was changed to honor the Senegalese philosopher and anthropologist, Cheikh Anta Diop.

As students who have benefited from primary and secondary education age, Cheikh Anta Diop University has had its already stretched resources stretched further.

Scholars like Henry Gravrand as well as Cheikh Anta Diop ( who among others referred to it as the Serer cult of upright stones ) notes that, the steles of Roog are still built by modern day Serers though in a much smaller scale i. e. in people's homes.

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

** Cheikh Anta Diop: Poem for the Living by Mwatabu S. Okantah ( 1997 )

The election was won by Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who was ousted by a military coup in 2008 and replaced by general Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.

The election was won by Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi

* The Mourides, the richest and most active, founded by marabout Cheikh Amadou Bamba ( 1850 – 1927 ) of French West Africa, now Senegal.

The African Renaissance concept was first articulated by Cheikh Anta Diop in a series of essays beginning in 1946, which are collected in his book " Towards the African Renaissance: Essays in Culture and Development, 1946-1960 ,".

Cheikh Ibra Fall, founder of the Baye Fall school of the Mouride Brotherhood, popularized the style by adding a mystic touch to it, it's important to note that warriors among fullani, wolof, serer and mandika were also known to have dreadlocks when old and cornrows when young for centuries.

The first international release by a woman was " Cheikh Anta Mbacke " ( 1989 ) by Kiné Lam.

The words of the National Anthem of Mauritania () are taken from an 18th-century poem by Baba Ould Cheikh ; the melody was written by Tolia Nikiprowetzky.

Archaeological research on the historical occupation of Gorée has been recently undertaken by Dr. Ibrahima Thiaw ( Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Institut Fondamental d ' Afrique Noire ( IFAN ); and the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal ); Dr. Susan Keech McIntosh ( Professor of Archaeology, Rice University, Houston, Texas ); and Raina Croff ( PhD candidate at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut ).

Cheikh Anta Diop University predates Senegalese independence and grew out of several French institutions set up by the colonial administration.

It was led by Ibrahima Seydou Ndaw, Cheikh Tidiane Sy and Oumar Diop.

The election was ultimately won by Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in the second round of voting.

The city is served by Touat Cheikh Sidi Mohamed Belkebir Airport ( or simply Adrar Airport ) located 10 kilometers away from centre of the city has Air Algérie flight to Algiers, Bordj Badji Mokhtar, Oran and Ouargla in addition to Tassili Airlines flights to In Aménas.

* Diop, Cheikh Anta, Modum, Egbuna P., " Towards the African renaissance: essays in African culture & development ", 1946 – 1960, p 28, Karnak House ( 1996 ).

Cheikh Anta Diop wrote a series of essays as a student from 1946 to 1960, charting the development of Africa.

The band took another break, with some members leaving to pursue various solo projects ( i. e. Taffa composing and playing with Jean-Luc Ponty, for theatrical pieces and clinics ; Brahms with Manu Chao, Cheikh producing, composing and arranging with local musicians in Dakar ; Henri producing and arranging, as well as managing the Quai des Arts in St. Louis, Senegal ; Baye becoming involved planning events at a music center in Saint Germain en Laye, France, while playing with a Jazz trio ; Souleymane leading a successful solo career in Dakar ).

Among the most noted interpreters, there are Bahdja Rahal, Cheikh El Hadj Mohamed El Ghafour, Nasserdine Chaouli, Cheikh Larbi Bensari, Nouri El Koufi as troops music such as El Mouahidia, El Mossilia, El Fakhardjia, Es Sendoussia and El-Andalusians.

Great performers are: Cheikh El Hasnaoui, Slimane Azem, Aït Menguellet, Idir, Kamel Messaoudi, Lounès Matoub or even Takfarinas.

Elections were held in March 2007, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was elected president and Vall stood down.

In the apparently successful and bloodless coup d ' état, Abdallahi daughter, Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi said: " The security agents of the BASEP ( Presidential Security Battalion ) came to our home and took away my father.

In the apparently successful and bloodless coup d ' état, Abdallahi daughter, Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi said: " The security agents of the BASEP ( Presidential Security Battalion ) came to our home and took away my father.

In August 2008 General Ould Abdel Aziz led the 2008 Mauritanian coup d ' état that toppled President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

Cheikh Anta Diop University also known as the University of Dakar, was established in 1957.

A prominent member of the Baye Fall is the Senegalese Musician Cheikh Lo.

* Thiam, Cheikh ( 2005 ) MOURIDISM: A LOCAL RE-INVENTION OF THE MODERN SENEGALESE SOCIO-ECONOMIC ORDER in West Africa Review, Issue 8 ( 2005 ), ISSN: 1525-4488.

* Adama Baytir Diop, La communauté lebu face aux développement de la politique coloniale: la question des terrains de Dakar ( 1887-1958 ), Dakar, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, 1995, 277 p. ( thesis )

* Médoune Paye, La collectivité lebu de Dakar: organisation, rôle politique dans les élections municipales de 1925 à 1934, Dakar, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, 2001, 118 p. ( Master's thesis )

Approche critique des sources, Dakar, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, 1990, 36 p. ( Mémoire de DEA )

* Ould Cheikh, Abdel Wedoud.

Le berbère de Mauritanie présenté par racines dans une perspective comparative ", ( Berber Studies ; n ° 20, 2008 ) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, XCIX + 650 p. un avant-propos d ' Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, ISBN 978-3-89645-399-0

They and other people of the left pass through Bahiyya ’ s house, whose name represents the idea of the mother country and is invoked in Cheikh Imam ’ s song at the end of the film.