Diakha

Diakha, also known as Diakha-Bambukhu, stands on the Bafing in the gold-bearing Bambuk country. It was a centre of the Jakhanke, a community of Muslim clerics and teachers whose traditions recall al-Hajj Salim Suware as a founding figure. The settlement took its name from an older Diakha in the Niger inland delta. From the Bafing, Jakhanke families spread across the western Sudan, establishing scholarly communities while retaining the memory of their origins and a tradition of religious learning.