Umar Tall

Umar Tall

male, deceased (1864)
El Hadj Umar Tall, also Umar Tal,Umar Taal "Umar Futi", al-Hajj Umar ibn Sa'id Tal, or el-Hadj Omar ibn Sa'id Tal, (ca. 1797 - 1864) was a...

Seku Amadu

male, deceased (1845)
Seku Amadu (1773-1845) was the founder of the Fula (Peul in French) Massina Empire in what is now the Mopti Region of Mali. He ruled from 1818 to...
Muhammed Bello

Muhammed Bello

male
Muhammed Bello was the son and aide of Usman dan Fodio. He became the second Sultan of Sokoto following his father's 1815 retirement from the...

Amadu Amadu

male, deceased (1862)
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...

Ahmadu Tall

male
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...

Sidi Ahmed Al-Tidjani

male
Sidi Ahmed al-Tidjani (1737-1815), in Arabic , founded the Tijānī Sūfī order (tarīqah) in the late eighteenth century in Fes, Morocco. The order...

Mahmadu Lamine

male, deceased (1887)
al-Hajj Mahmadu Lamine was a nineteenth-century Senegalese marabout who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the French colonial government. After...

Amadu Seku

male
Amadu Seku (Ruled 19 Mar 1845 - 27 Feb 1853) was a ruler (Imam or Amir al-Mu´minin) of the nineteenth-century Massina Empire in what is now Mali. A...

Babemba Traoré

male, deceased (1898)
Babemba Traoré was a king of the Kénédougou Empire. Following the 1893 death of his brother Tieba Traoré, Babemba assumed the Kénédougou throne...

Balobo

male
Balobo, or Ba Lobbo, was the son of Massina Empire ruler Amadu Seku, and brother of Amadu Amadu, the Empire's last king. After the 1862 fall of the...