Louga au Sénégal, à environ 60 km. s.s.e. de Saint-Louis, fut au siècle dernier la capitale d'une sorte de diocèse. Serigne Louga était alors considéré comme le chef religieux de tout le Ndiambour et avait, à ce titre, les honneurs du Moniteur du 25 décembre 1856. Il perdit cependant son autorité religieuse, et Louga du même coup sa notoriété, dans le naufrage de l'empire des Darnels. Louga n'était plus en 1905 qu'une maigre bourgade sans signification, lorsque se produisit un évènement qui allait étendre à tout le Sénégal, et même à la Mauritanie, sa renommée. C'est en effet cette année-là qu'un groupe d'hommes d'affaires entreprenants et astucieux, en tête desquels il faut citer Hamadou Barka, prit l'initiative de fonder le ‘Marbat’.

In August 1944, after more than twenty years of exile, His Eminence al-Sayyid Muhammad Idris, the Head of the Islamic Order of the Sanusiya, paid a visit to Cyrenaica as the guest of the British Administration of that country. The following account of the Sanusi of Cyrenaica may be of interest, since though the Sanusi became well known to us during the last war, and even better known during the present war, in which they have been our Allies, few of those who have met them in their country know their history.

Nana Sir Ofori Atta, K.B.E., died on 23 August 1943 after occupying the Paramount Stool of the tribe of Akim Abuakwa since 1912. He was a striking personality and without doubt the outstanding African of his generation in the Gold Coast. His statesmanship both in his tribal affairs and in the general politics of the Colony was exceptional. He was at once the chief of his own people, the acknowledged leader of his brother chiefs in the Colony, and the valued and trusted adviser of the Government.