Ahmadu Tall, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ahmadu Tall

Toucouleur ruler

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1836

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1897

Profession: sovereign

Nationality: Mali

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Ahmadu Tall

  • Ahmadou Sekou Tall ( June 21, 1836 – December 15, 1897) (also Ahmadu Sekou, Ahmad al-Madani al-Kabir at-Tijani) was a Toucouleur ruler (Laamdo DioulbĂ©) of the Toucouleur Empire (1864–92) and (Faama) of SĂ©gou (now Mali) from 1864 to 1884.
  • Ahmadu Seku's father, El Hadj Umar Tall, conquered SĂ©gou (then the heart of the Bambara Empire) on March 10, 1861.
  • Not long afterwards, he began his conquest of the Fula empire of Massina, leaving Ahmadu as the Almami of SĂ©gou. After Umar Tall's 1864 death, his nephew Tidiani Tall succeeded him as head of the Toucouleur Empire.
  • Ahmadu Seku continued to act as Faama of the eastern regions from Segou, suppressing the rebellions of several neighboring cities but quarrelling increasingly with his brothers.
  • The French colonial army invaded the empire in the 1880s and 1890s, taking SĂ©gou in 1892 and forcing Ahmadu Seku to flee to Sokoto in present-day Nigeria.

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