Baol

The Kingdom of Baol or Bawol in central Senegal was one of the Wolof kingdoms that arose from the split-up of the Empire of Jolof (Diolof) in 1555. The ruler (Teigne or Teen) reigned from a capital in Diourbel.
Extent.
The Kingdom encompassed a strip of land extending east from the ocean to the capital city and included the towns of Touba and MBacke. It was directly south of the Kingdom of Cayor and north of the Kingdom of Sine.
Culture.
Baol was famous for its horses. It has unique breeds, which were faster and more robust than most of the horses on the plain. Baol citizens are good riders.
Demographics.
Baol became a Wolof kingdom, but it included communities of Serer-Safen and other Serer groups.
History.
Before the Faal (or Fall) Wolof family of Cayor came into power, Baol was ruled by a mixed dynasty: the Wagadu maternal dynasty (from the Ghana Empire along with the Serer maternal dynasties of N'Gom (or Ngum), Thiaw, and Joof or Diouf (along with Faye), all three major Serer matriclans were from Mandingue maternal dynasties from the Ghana empire like the Wagadu. Some of the earlier Serer kings (Laman) before the Faal paternal dynasty included: Kolki Faye; Mbissine Ndoumbé Ngom; Massamba Fambi Ngom; Fambi Langar Ngom; Patar Xole Joof (or Maad Patar Kolleh Joof, the Great) - grandson of Maad Ndaah Njemeh Joof; and Maguinak Joof, cousin of Amari Ngoneh Sobel Faal who accompanied him at the Battle of Danki (1549) and helped him defeat the Emperor of Jolof, thereby bringing his empire too its knees.
Amari Ngoneh Sobel Faal, the first Damel-Teign from the Faal family, is the maternal grandson of Lingeer Sobel Joof, mother of Lingeer Ngoneh Sobel Njie (French: Ngonē Sobel Ndiaye Who has paternal ancestry from the Ndiaye Wolof ruling family of Jolof.
The social and political systems were basically the same as those of Cayor. In fact, the kingdoms merged from time to time for mutual defense.
The French conquest of Baol began in 1859. Most of Baol was conquered by the French in 1874, however complete control of the former kingdom was not gained by France until 1895. It was one of many campaigns of Governor Louis Faidherbe who oversaw the conquest of Cayor in 1886.