Serer Kings

Kings ofSine (left to right) :Maad a Sinig Ama Joof Gnilane Faye Joof andMaad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Fa Ndeb Joof.

TheSerer-Ndut orNdut also spelt (Ndoute orN'doute) are an ethnic group inSenegal numbering 38600.^[1]They are part of theSerer people who collectively make up the third largest ethnic group in Senegal.^[2] The Serer-Ndut live mostly in western Senegal in the district of Mont-Roland, northwest of the city ofThiès.

Their languageNdut, is one of theCangin languages, closely related toPalor. Like the other Cangin languages, the speakers are ethnicallySerers but they do not speak theSerer-Sine language.

Their language is not a dialect of Serer-Sine (or Serer proper).^[3] The people are agriculturalists and lake fishermen.

Serer-Ndut people traditionally and still practice theSerer religion which involveshonouring the ancestors covering all dimensions of life, death,cosmology etc.^[4][5] Their name for the Supreme Deity (Roog - in Serer religion) isKopé Tiatie Cac - (God the grandfather in theNdut language).^[6] TheNdut initiation rite, arite of passage in Serer religion takes its name from the Ndut language. Some Serer-Ndut are Catholic. The mainCatholic mission is at the town of Tiin.

The Serer people to which they are a sub-group of are the oldest inhabitants ofSenegambia along with theJola people. Their ancestors were dispersed throughout theSenegambia Region and it is suggested that they built theSenegambian stone circles^{[7][8][9][10]} although other sources suggest it was probably the Jola.^[9][11]

The Ndut were also the original founders ofBiffeche as well as the Mt Rolland.^{[12][13][14][15]} During the colonial period ofSenegal, both theFrench administration andthe Muslim communities of Senegal tried toannihilate the Serer-Ndut people.^[16][17] They failed to achieve their objectives.

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• Dione, Salif, "L'APPEL du Ndut. ou l'initiation des garcons Seereer",IFANCheikh Anta Diop (2004)
• Gravrand, Henry, "La Civilisation Sereer -Pangool", vol.2, Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal, (1990), p 9 and 77,ISBN 2-7236-1055-1
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• Gravrand, Henry, "La civilisation Sereer - Cosaan : les origines, vol.1, pp. 140–146, Nouvelles Editions Africaines, 1983,ISBN 2-7236-0877-8
• Dupire, Marguerite, "Sagessesereer: Essais sur la pensée sereer ndut":[4]
• Becker, Charles, "Les Serer Ndut: Études sur les mutations sociales et religieuses", Microéditions Hachette (1974)
• Klein, Martin A., "Islam and Imperialism inSenegal,Sine-Saloum" 1847–1914, pp VII-5,Edinburgh University Press, (1968),ISBN 0-85224-029-5
• Daggs, Elisa, "All Africa: All its political entities of independent or other status", Hasting House, (1970),ISBN 0-8038-0336-2
• Taal, Alhaji Ebou Momar, "Senegambian Ethnic Groups: Common Origins and Cultural Affinities Factors and Forces of National Unity, Peace and Stability" (2010)
• Gamble, David P., & Salmon, Linda K., (with Njie, Alhaji Hassan), "Gambian Studies No. 17 : People of The Gambia. I. The Wolof, with notes on the Serer and Lebou", San Francisco (1985)

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