Bendugu (province)
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Bendugu or Bendougou was a province of the Mali Empire and later the Songhai Empire, in modern-day Mali. It lies south of the Bani River, west of Djenne. The name means 'country of grass' in Bamanan.[1]
In 1542 Askia Ishaq I defeated the Mali Empire in Bendougou, but the province remained in Malian hands.[2] In the 1570s Bendugu was raided by Askia Daoud, part of a wider campaign to restore central control over the periphery of the empire.[3] In the early 18th century the region was devastated by an invasion by the Kong Empire.[1]
In the 1830s Bendougou was reorganized as a province of the Massina Empire.[4]
Government
Bendugu, like the neighboring Kala, was divided between 12 kings, mostly of the Traore lineage.[5] It was administered by a centrally-appointed official known as the Yaw.[5] In the 18th century, Bendugu lay on the periphery of the Segou Empire, and this loose control led to anarchic conditions and the proliferation of petty kingdoms during this period.[6]
References
- 1 2 Pageard, Robert (1961). "La marche orientale du Mali (Ségou-Djenné) en 1644, d'après le Tarikh es-Soudan". Journal de la Société des Africanistes. 31. doi:10.3406/jafr.1961.1930.
- ↑ Person, Yves (1981). "Nyaani Mansa Mamudu et la fin de l 'empire du Mali". Le sol, la parole et l'écrit: Mélanges en hommage à Raymond Mauny, Tome II. Paris: Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer. p. 618. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
- ↑ Gomez, Michael (2018). African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 339. ISBN 9780691177427.
- ↑ Massing, Andrew (2009). "SAN AND THE SANKÉ: A HISTORY OF A MARKA MALINKÉ TRADING CITY ON THE NIGER". Mande Studies. 11.
- 1 2 Bazin 1988, p. 384.
- ↑ Bazin 1988, p. 395.
Sources
- Bazin, Jean (1988). "Princes désarmés, corps dangereux. Les « rois-femmes » de la région de Segu". Cahiers d'Études Africaines (in French). 28 (111). Retrieved 22 March 2025.
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