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 T ...
) 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 ...
(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. Ma ...
) 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 E ...
) 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
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
colonial 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
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
).
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
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