The last great queen of the Waalo
Ndaté Yalla Mbodj (1810-1860) was the last great Lingeer or queen of Waalo, a kingdom in what is now north-western Senegal.
She was a great queen at the head of a huge army that fought against French colonisation and the Moorish invasion.
Queen Ndate was crowned on 1 October 1846 in Ndar (now Saint-Louis), the capital of the Waalo Kingdom. She succeeded her sister, Queen Ndjeumbeut Mbodj.