Maghan II or Kita Tenin Maghan was a mansa of the

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from 1387 to 1389. He was the son of Mansa Mari Diata II and the brother of Mansa Musa II.

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records that Maghan II succeeded his brother to the throne in 1387, but reigned for only around one year before he was assassinated 1389. Oral histories, however, maintain that he fled to the upper

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region, establishing the Hamana branch of the Keita clan.

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