- Kaladian Coulibaly
Kaladian Coulibaly was a
West African ruler who founded one of the first largeBambara kingdoms, centered onSégou in what is nowMali . Around 1650, Coulibaly's kingdom was one of the dominant forces in the region. Though it lacked a systematic framework and thus failed to outlast his death (c. 1680), his great-grandsonBitòn Coulibaly would found a more stableBambara Empire fifty years later on the same spot.References
*Davidson, Basil. "Africa in History". New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
External links
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/09/sfw/ht09sfw.htm Timeline of Western Sudan]
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