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Ségou is a town and an urban commune in south-central Mali that lies 235 kilometres northeast of Bamako on the right bank of the River Niger. The town is the capital of the Ségou Cercle and the Ségou
View of Ségou
Tomb of Biton Mamary Coulibaly at Ségou-Koro
Entrance to the palace of Ahmadu Tall at Ségou-Sikoro in around 1866
The reconstructed residence palace of Ségou, built by the French colonial government in 1893 on the ruins of Ahmadu Tall's palace.
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Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa and the 23rd largest country in the world, with an area of 1,240,192 square ki
Ségou
…Ségou (French pronunciation: ; Bambara: ߛߋߜ߭ߎ߫, Segu) is a town and an urban commune in south-central Mali that lies 235 kilometres (146 mi) northeast of Bamako on the right bank of the River Niger. The town is the capital of the Ségou Cercle and the Ségou…
The pages above are from Timbuktu Manuscripts written in Sudani script (a form of Arabic) from the Mali Empire showing established knowledge of astronomy and mathematics. Today there are close to a million of these manuscripts found in Timbuktu alone.
Griots of Sambala, king of Médina (Fula people, Mali), 1890. Photo by Joannès Barbier.
Cotton being processed in Niono into 180 kg (400 lb) bales for export to other parts of Africa and to France, c. 1950
WWI Commemorative Monument to the "Armée Noire"