Imamate of Futa Toro

Imamate of Futa Toro
1776–1859
Capital	Orefonde
Common languages	Arabic (official) Pulaar language
Religion	Sunni Islam
Government	Theocratic monarchy
Almamy
• 1776–1804	Abdul Kaader
• 1875–1891	Abdul Ba Bakar
History
• Established	1776
• Incorporated into Senegal Colony	1877
• Disestablished	1859
Preceded by Succeeded by Empire of Great Fulo Tukulor Empire French West Africa
Today part of	Senegal

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The Imamate of Futa Toro (Arabic: إمامة فوتة تورو; Fula: Imaama Futa Toro; French: Imamat de Futa Toro) was a West African theocratic monarchy of the Fula-speaking people (Fulɓe and Toucouleurs) in the middle valley of the Senegal River, in the region known as Futa Toro.^[1] Following the trend of jihads in the late 17th century and early 18th century, the religious leader Sulayman Bal led a jihad in 1776. His successor, the expansionist Abdul Kader defeated the emirates of Trarza and Brakna and by his death in 1806, power became decentralized between a few elite families of Torodbes. Threatened by both the expansion of the Toucouleur Empire and the French in the mid-19th century, Futa Toro was eventually annexed in 1859. By the 1860s, the power of the Almamy became nominal and the state was further weakened when a cholera epidemic killed a quarter of its population in 1868.