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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 (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 To ...
) of Ségou (now Mali) from 1864 to 1884. Ahmadu Sekou's father, El Hadj Umar Tall, 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 Fula 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 Umar Tall died in 1864, his nephew Tidiani Tall succeeded him as head of the Toucouleur Empire. 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
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army invaded the empire in the 1880s and 1890s, taking Ségou in 1892 and forcing Ahmadu Sekou to flee to Sokoto (now in present-day Nigeria).


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