The Jolof Empire (French: Diolof or Djolof) was a West African state that ruled parts of Senegal from 1360 to 1890.
Read more about Jolof Empire: Origins, Early History, Society in Imperial Jolof, Women in Imperial Jolof, Political Organization, Contact With Europe, Late Period, Battle of Danki and Disintegration
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“That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)