Lobi Traoré

male, 48 years old
musician, Bakaridianna, Bambara blues, The Lobi Traoré Group, DUGA, Ségou
Lobi Traoré is a Malian musician. He was born in 1961 in the village of Bakaridianna, on the Niger River close to Ségou. His singing has been de...

Babemba Traoré

male, deceased (1898)
mali, French, west africa, colonial, Colonialism, Malian
Babemba Traoré was a king of the Kénédougou Empire. Following the 1893 death of his brother Tieba Traoré, Babemba assumed the Kénédougou throne...
Fanta Damba

Fanta Damba

female, 71 years old
musician, mali, Malian, Ségou, La Grand Vedette Malienne, Radio Mali
Fanta Damba (born in 1938 in Segou) is a Malian jalimusolu known to her fans as La Grand Vedette Malienne. She has been singing as a child, growing...
Soungalo Coulibaly

Soungalo Coulibaly

male, 54 years old
mali, drummer, african, bara, Master drummer, Côte d'Ivoire
Soungalo Coulibaly a Malian drummer. Coulibaly was brought up in the purest Bambara tradition. His father was head of the village of Béléko (a...

Tieba Traoré

male, deceased (1893)
French West Africa, Ségou, colonial, fortification, Colonialism, tata
Tieba Traoré was a king of the Kénédougou Empire who reigned from 1876 until his death in 1893. Son of the previous king, Mansa Douala, Traoré move...
Ali Coulibaly

Ali Coulibaly

male
Muslim, islam, Bambara Empire, Ngolo Diarra, Ségou, Bambara
Ali Coulibaly was a king of the Bambara Empire of Ségou. Son of empire founder Bitòn Coulibaly and brother to the previous king, Dinkoro Co...

Ahmadu Tall

male
mali, Massina Empire, Toucouleur, Toucouleur Empire, Fula, Ségou
Ahmadu Tall was a Toucouleur imam of Ségou (now Mali) in the nineteenth century. Ahmadu's father, El Hadj Umar Tall, conquered Ségou (then the he...

Bitòn Coulibaly

male, deceased (1755)
Malian, mali, monarch, slavery, niger river, mossi
Bitòn Coulibaly founded the Bambara Empire in what is now Mali's Ségou Region and Mopti Region. Great-grandson of former Ségou king Kaladian Cou...

Amadu Amadu

male, deceased (1862)
Amir al-Mu´minin, Imam, Ségou, Malian, Bambara Empire, Mopti Region
Amadu Amadu (1853 - 16 May 1862, died 1862) was the last ruler (Imam or Amir al-Mu´minin) of the Fula Massina Empire in what is now the Mopti R...

Kaladian Coulibaly

male
mali, Bambara Empire, Ségou, Bambara, West African
Kaladian Coulibaly was a West African ruler who founded one of the first large Bambara kingdoms, centered on Ségou in what is now Mali. Around 1...