Mama Maghan, also known as Nyamaghan, was a self-proclaimed
Mansa
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of the
Mali Empire
The Mali Empire (Manding languages, Manding: ''Mandé''Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: ''UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century'', p. 57. University of California Press, 1997. or ''Manden ...
in the early 17th century.
Reign
The eldest son of
Niani Mansa Mamadou, Nyamaghan was appointed ruler of the city of
Kita under his father in order to defend the western part of the crumbling Mali Empire. After his father's death in the early 1600s, the empire split between Nyamaghan and his brothers
Mansa Kuru and
Mansa Kanda. He marched south to restore imperial control over the
Niger river
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valley, in chaos since Niani Mansa Mamadou's
defeat outside Djenne in 1599. There he founded the ''kafu'' of
Juma.
Historiography
Colonial-era historian
Maurice Delafosse
Maurice Delafosse (20 December 1870 – 13 November 1926) was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa. In a review of his daughter's biography of him he was described as "one of the most ...
incorrectly reported that Mama Maghan besieged
Segou in 1670, but this was a confusion on his part with a siege in the 1720s by
Famagan Ouattara, ruler of the
Kong Empire
The Kong Empire (1710–1898), also known as the Wattara Empire or Ouattara Empire for its founder Seku Watara, was a pre-colonial state centered in what is now northeastern Ivory Coast that also encompassed much of present-day Burkina Faso a ...
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[Delafosse, Maurice (1912). ''Haut-Sénégal Niger'' (in French). Vol. II. L'Histoire. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 283-4]
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Mali Empire
The Mali Empire (Manding languages, Manding: ''Mandé''Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: ''UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century'', p. 57. University of California Press, 1997. or ''Manden ...
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Keita Dynasty
The Keita dynasty ruled pre-imperial and imperial Mali from the 11th century into the early 17th century. It was a Muslim dynasty, and its rulers claimed descent from Bilal ibn Rabah. The early history is entirely unknown, outside of legends and ...
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Mansas of the Mali Empire
17th-century African people
17th-century monarchs in Africa
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