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Name: Kénédougou Kingdom

Type: Polity

Start: 1651 AD

End: 1898 AD

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Was a precolonial kingdom in Mali founded by the Senoufo people.

Establishment


  • January 1651: Kénédougou was first established in the 1650s by the Senoufo people.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1879: Samory Touré establishes the Wassoulou Empire after a series of military campaigns.

  • May 1898: The French launched an artillery assault against Sikasso's tata in April 1898, and the city fell on May 1 of the same year. Rather than see the French take control of his city, Fama Babemba ordered his guards to kill him. The territory of the Kénédougou Kingdom was soon assimilated into the colony of French Sudan.

  • Disestablishment


  • May 1898: The French launched an artillery assault against Sikasso's tata in April 1898, and the city fell on May 1 of the same year. Rather than see the French take control of his city, Fama Babemba ordered his guards to kill him. The territory of the Kénédougou Kingdom was soon assimilated into the colony of French Sudan.
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