Ahmadou Sekou Tall (June 21, 1836 – December 15, 1897) (also Ahmadu Sekou, Ahmad al-Madani al-Kabir at-Tijani) was a Toucouleur ruler ( Laamdo Dioulbé) of the

Toucouleur Empire The Tidjaniya Caliphate ( ar, الخلافة التجانية; also known as the Tijaniyya Jihad state or the Segu Tukulor or the Toucouleur Empire) (1861–1890) was founded in the mid-nineteenth century by Elhadj Oumar Foutiyou Tall of the To ...

(1864–92) and (

Faama Faama is a Mandinka word meaning "father," "leader," or "king". It was commonly used within the area of pre-imperial Mali. The title spread into areas conquered by Mali and was later used by the Bamana Empire and the Wassoulou Empire of Samori ...

) of

Ségou Ségou (; bm, ߛߋߓߎ, italic=no, ) is a town and an urban commune in south-central Mali that lies northeast of Bamako on the right bank of the River Niger. The town is the capital of the Ségou Cercle and the Ségou Region. With 130,690 i ...

(now

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

) from 1864 to 1884. Ahmadu Sekou's father, El Hadj

Umar Tall Hadji Oumarûl Foutiyou Tall (Umar ibn Sa'id al-Futi Tal, ar, حاج عمر بن سعيد طعل), ( – 1864 CE), born in Futa Tooro, present day Senegal, was a West African political leader, Islamic scholar, Tijani Sufi and Toucouleur ...

, conquered Ségou (then the heart of the

Bambara Empire The Bamana Empire (also Bambara Empire or Ségou Empire, bm, italics=no, ߓߊ߲ߓߊߙߊ߲߫ ߝߊ߯ߡߟߊ, Banbaran Fāmala) was a large West African state based at Ségou, now in Mali. This state was established after the fall of the Mali Emp ...

) on March 10, 1861. Not long afterwards, he began his conquest of the

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empire of Massina, leaving Ahmadu as the Almami of Ségou. After the advance of the French in 1887, he abandoned Ségou and accepted a French protectorate called the ''Treaty of Gouri'' on 12 May 1887. After

died in 1864, his nephew

Tidiani Tall Tidiani Tall (c.1840 – 1888) succeeded his uncle, El Hadj Umar Tall, as head of the Toucouleur Empire following Umar's 1864 death near Bandiagara. Tidiani Tall also had 4 children: Coumba Tall, Madina Tall, Fadima Tall, and Addafini Abdulahi. ...

succeeded him as head of the

. Ahmadu Sekou continued to act as Faama of the eastern regions from Ségou, suppressing the rebellions of several neighboring cities but quarrelling increasingly with his brothers. The French

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army invaded the empire in the 1880s and 1890s, taking Ségou in 1892 and forcing Ahmadu Sekou to flee to

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(now in present-day

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References

English references *B. O. Oloruntimeehin. ''The Segu Tukulor Empire.'' New York: Humanities Press (1972). SBN 391002066 Toucouleur Empire Malian imams 1836 births 1897 deaths People from Ségou {{Mali-bio-stub