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Diop, Sokhna Magat

LC control no.n 90720867
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Personal name headingDiop, Sokhna Magat
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Variant(s)Magat Diop, Sokhna
Magat, Sokhna
Associated countrySenegal
Birth date1917~
Death date2003-07-18
Place of birthThiès (Senegal)
Place of deathThiès (Senegal)
Profession or occupationSpiritualists
Found inCoulon, C. L'islam au féminin-- Sokhna Magat Diop, cheikh de la confrérie mouride (Sénégal), 1990: p. 4 (26 y.o. in 1943) p. 26 (Sokhna MAGAT)
Dictionary of African Biography , accessed January 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Diop, Sokhna Magat; Soxna Magatte; Soxna Maguette; Soxna Mame Séye ; spiritualist; born c.1917 in Thiès, Senegal; succeeded her father as khalifa (1943); remained head of the Mouride branch; inherited baraka from her father and through her mother's noble lineage; died 18 July 2003 in Thiès, Senegal )
Not found inLipschutz, M.R. Dict. of African hist. biog., c1986; Hist. dict. of Senegal, 1981; Les Elites sénégalaises, 1984.