Ahmadu Bamba and Decolonization: The Power of Faith and Self-Reliance

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba MBacké was a leader of his time, championing non—violence and pioneering decolonization through the Murid project, which was a Sufi religious dimension and a deconstruction of colonial and local (psychic) alienation. Cheikh M. Ndiaye's, Ahmadu Bamba and Decolonization: The Power of Faith and Self—Reliance, examines Bamba's legacy as a man of unshakable faith, a humanist, a socio—cultural reformer, and a key...