Nguidjilone

Nguidjilone lies on the Senegal River in the Futa Toro country. Its neighboring settlements were home to communities with different occupations: Fulbe herders at Kédélé, fishermen at Ali Ouri and Somono, and Sebbe families at Vélingara and Lodiou. Local accounts remember Fulbe and Sebbe living together at nearby Wabel under the Denyanke rulers, with marriages creating ties between them. After the rise of the Futa Toro almamate in 1776, these communities established the villages that formed the surrounding settlement.