Waalo controlled the mouth of the Senegal River and rose to particular prominence in the 18th century through control of gum-arabic and river trade, before internal succession conflict and French conquest ended it in 1855.
Annexed by France in 1855 following military conquest, one of the earliest formal French annexations in Senegal.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Waalo — the shape you scrub through changes in 1287 · 1549.
The standard scholarly history of the Senegambian region and its Wolof and Serer kingdoms (Cayor, Baol, Waalo, Sine, Saloum), in print from Cambridge University Press.