Alfaya (party)

The Alfaya was the name given to the party from the mid-18th century that favored the clerical successors of the jihad leader Karamoko Alfa in the Imamate of Futa Jallon in what is now Guinea.

They made their base in the religious center of Fugumba.^[1] They contended with the military group, the Soriya, who supported the successors of the war leader Ibrahim Sori. The rivalry between the two groups continued into the 20th century in Guinea.^[2]

References

Citations

1. Barry 1997, p. 269.
2. O'Toole & Baker 2005, p. 6.

Sources

• Barry, Boubacar (1997-12-13). Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-59760-9. Retrieved 2013-02-09.
• O'Toole, Thomas; Baker, Janice E. (2005). Historical Dictionary of Guinea. Volume 94 of African historical dictionaries, Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4634-9.