Shaykh Buh Naama's wife Makodu Diop was from the aristocratic Wolof family Kuli Kodu of Guet,one of the lineages that provided the rulers of Kajoor (Haidara, 1985). She gave birth to Abu Muhammed ben Abu Naama Kunta in 1840, six months after her husband’s death. Commonly known as "Buh" Kunta, the child grew up in Ndankh under the tutelage of his eldest brother Bekkaï. Bekkaï did not send the young Buh to Koranic school in Mauritania, although he and some of his junior brothers had been educated there during their father's lifetime. Buh Kunta left his family home in 1856 and set out on an itinerant life that was to last for more than 25 years. He traveled to the royal courts of Senegambia and to Mauritania to pay his respects to the political and religious authorities of the region. He then joined commercial caravans and later engaged in commerce on his own account, spending several years in the important British entrepôt Bathurst (today's Banjul), the Gambia. After a few unsuccessful attempts to establish himself in different Kajoorian villages, Buh Kunta received
land from the king (
damel) Samba Laobé in 1883 and registered it with the colonial government. His settlement was part of the agglomeration of Ndiassane and was initially called
Kër Buh Kunta (place, or house, of Buh Kunta). According to oral tradition, he made a spring erupt from a rock just outside the village. The new water sources came to be known as the
séanes of Ndiassane and facilitated cultivation of the previously dry area.