Sibila is a village and rural commune in the Cercle of Ségou in the

Ségou Region Ségou Region (Bambara language, Bambara: ߛߋߓߎ ߘߌߣߋߖߊ tr. Segu Dineja) is an administrative region in Mali, situated in the centre of the country with an area of , around 5% of Mali. The region is bordered by Sikasso Region on the sout ...

of southern-central

Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...

. The commune contains 15 villages in an area of approximately 280 square kilometers. In the 2009 census it had a population of 19,185. Sibila was the seat of the small kingdom of Sana or Sanadougou, originally ruled from nearby Sana Madougou ruled by a branch of the Traore dynasty. Abderrahmane al-Sa'di, author of the

Tarikh al-Sudan The ''Tarikh al-Sudan'' ( ''Tārīkh as-Sūdān''; also ''Tarikh es-Sudan'', "History of the Sudan") is a West African chronicle written in Arabic in around 1655 by the chronicler of Timbuktu, al-Sa'di. It provides the single most important primary ...

, visited the kingdom in 1643. The town was sacked by Bambara mercenaries in 1645.

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*. *. Communes of Ségou Region {{Ségou-geo-stub