Alinesitoué Diatta, born about 1920 at Kabrousse in the Lower Casamance, is the most famous of the Jola prophets. While working as a domestic servant in Dakar she received, from 1941, a series of visions in which the supreme being Emitai charged her to return home and renew the observances of awasena, the Diola path. She taught that the drought then afflicting the region sprang from the community's neglect of Emitai, from the absence of migrant labourers from the rice paddies, and from the pressures of French colonial rule, and she revealed a set of spirit-shrines, above all the community rain shrine Kasila, whose ritual offices were open to all regardless of age, sex, or wealth. Her movement drew a large following and unsettled colonial authority; in 1943 the French arrested her and exiled her to Timbuktu, where she died in 1944, still in her twenties. She has since been reclaimed as a national heroine of Senegal and a symbol of Casamance identity.