Ba Lobbo was the nephew of
Seku Amadu, the founder of the
Massina Empire
The Caliphate of Hamdullahi ( ar, خلافة حمد الله; also: Dina of Massina, Sise Jihad state) commonly known as the Massina empire (also spelled ''Maasina'' or ''Macina'') was an early nineteenth-century Fulbe Jihad state centered in the ...
. He was known as an able general, and was considered as a possible successor to Seku Amadu in 1845, but was passed up in favor of the latter's son,
Amadu Seku
Amadu II of Massina (أحمد بن أحمد حمادي; ff, Amadu Amadu Hammadi; c. 1815 – February 1853), also called Amadu Seku, was the second Almami, or ruler, of the theocratic Caliphate of Hamdullahi or Diina of Hamdullahi in what is ...
. He was also considered as possible successor to Amadu Seku in 1853, but threw his support behind Amadu Seku's son,
Amadu Amadu, who became the third ruler of Massina.
In 1862, after the fall of the Empire's capital
Hamdullahi
Hamdullahi ( ar, حمد الله; also ''Hamdallahi'' or ''Hamdallaye''. From the Arabic: ''Praise to God'') is a town in the Mopti Region of Mali.
In the 19th century, it was the capital of the in what is now the Fula empire of Massina. Founde ...
to
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 ...
's
Toucouleur Empire,
Amadu Amadu was captured and executed, leaving Ba Lobbo the leader of remaining Massina forces. Assembling a force of
Fulas and
Kounta
The Kountas or Kuntas (singular: ''Elkentawi'' or ''Alkanata'') are described originally as Arabs, descendants of Uqba ibn Nafi,. The Kunta tribe are also considered to have roots to Sidi Ahmad al-Bakkay, the founder, who died in the early 16th ...
s, he succeeded in driving Umar Tall from Hamdullahi and into the cliffs of
Dogon country near Bandiagara in 1864. Although Umar Tall died there in an explosion of his
gunpowder reserves, his nephew
Tidiani Tall succeeded him as Toucouleur emperor, and suppressed Ba Lobbo's resistance; the Massina never regained their independence as a state.
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Pre-colonial Malian History
History of Mali
Massina Empire
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