Yang-Yang is a village in northern Senegal, the seat of the eponymous Yang-Yang Arrondissement since 1976. It was made the capital of the Kingdom of Jolof in 1865 under Bakane Tam Khary Dialor.
Buurba Alboury Ndiaye built a tata in the town to defend it, using a labor force of 3000 men. The defenses successfully repelled an attach by Bara Ba, cousin of Shaikh Amadou Ba, in 1875.
Yang-Yang was captured and burned by a French column led by Alfred Dodds in May 1890, bringing Jolof into the French colonial empire as a protectorate.
Yang-Yang was the site of the first colonial school in Jolof, founded in 1897. The remains of the tata, palace, and a stele marking the location of the mosque with several prominent graves are on the list of National Historic Monuments of Senegal.Arrêté ministériel n°8836 MCPHC-DPC en date du 12 septembre 2007, Journal officiel du Sénégal. The former palace hosts the Museum of the History of Jolof and Franco-Senegalese Friendship, founded by Mansour Bouna Ndiaye, son of the last Buurba of Jolof.
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