Ahmadu Tall

Ahmadu Tall

Ahmadu Tall (var. Ahmadu Seku/Sekou) was a Toucouleur ruler (Almami) of Ségou (now Mali) from 1864-1892. Ahmadu's father, El Hadj Umar Tall, conquered Ségou (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 Ségou.

After Umar Tall's 1864 death, his nephew Tidiani Tall succeeded him as head of the Toucouleur Empire. Ahmadu continued to act as Almami 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 Ségou in 1892 and forcing Ahmadu to flee to Sokoto in present-day Nigeria.

References

*B.O. Oloruntimeehin. "The Segu Tukulor Empire." Humanities Press, New York (1972). SBN 391002066


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