Golere

Golere is a settlement of Futa Toro in the Senegal River valley. Local accounts name Delel Dème as its founder and remember a village divided into quarters, each with its own chief. Among the families associated with Golere were the Bousso, whose learned lineage formed part of the Muslim scholarly traditions of the river country. In the nineteenth century Mariama Bousso, later known as Mame Diarra, was born here in 1833.