Mademba Sy
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Faama Mademba Sy was a king of Sansanding, in what is today Mali.[1]
The French colonial administration placed him as 'chief' of Massina after its conquest in the 1890s, in the new kingdom of Sansanding. In 1899 he was famously brought before a French military court on charges that he abused his authority, but he kept political support until his death.[2]
References
- Roberts, Richard, “The Case of Faama Mademba Sy and the Ambiguities of Legal Jurisdiction in Early Colonial French Soudan,” in Kristin Mann and Richard Roberts, eds., Law in Colonial Africa (Portsmouth, NH: Heinneman, 1991), 1pp. 85–205.
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