Mbegane Ndour

Maad Saloum Mbegane Ndour (Serer: Mbegaan Nduur or Mbeggaan Nduur ), was the founder and first king of Saloum in present-day Senegal. He ruled using the Serer title Maad Saloum (king of Saloum in Serer, Bour Saloum in Wolof) from c. 1493 - 1513, and as Maad a Sinig (king of Sine) from c. 1506 or 1510 - presumably as regent. Born to a Serer father from Saloum, and a Serer princess of Sine, he belonged to the reigning Guelowar maternal dynasty of Sine and Saloum that ruled for over six-hundred years. and the Serer Princess of Sine, Nyillane Faye (sister of Diessanou) of Guelowar mateilineage.

Through his mother, he trace descent to the patriarch of the Faye family, Boukar Djillakh Faye and the Guelowar Princess of Sine, Lingeer Tening Jom - who was a niece of Maissa Wali and an early maternal ancestor of the Guelowars. ) for the sacrifice, and drew a circle where he ordered the guests to stay within thereby preventing them from getting wet from the heavy rainfall. Effectively, acting as a Saltigi, the Serer hereditary rain priests. Upon seeing that, some of the notables of Sine or servants of the King reported what they saw to the King, and persuaded the King to accept the marriage and child. From that marriage, they had Mbegane Ndour; his sisters Mengeh Ndour (French: Mingué NDour) who was given in marriage to the Prince of Jolof Gnoule Njie (one of the many sons of the Emperor of Jolof, Biram Njemeh Kumba Njie), and is the mother of the later King of Saloum Maad Saloum Lat Mengeh Gnilane Njie); and Khadioune Ndour. In all versions, despite the King's initial refusal to the marriage, would later accept the marriage before the impregnation and birth of Mbegane - suggesting that Mbegane was not born out of wedlock - which would have been outside the norm of Senegambian society at the time, especially in ultra-conservative Sine (where he would later rule as Maad a Sinig succeeding Diessanou Faye ). The disputed claim that Mbegane's mother was first impregnated by Maari before their marriage originated from Bourgeau (1933), pp. 7-9. Bourgeau also claimed that the Guelowars invaded the Serers of Sine and conquered them, an account which has now been debunked and refuted. The Serer-Guelowar relationship was through a marriage alliance.