Amadou dan Tenimoun

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Sultan Amadou dan Ténimoun behind a French officer (1899)

Amadou dan Ténimoun († September 16, 1899 in Guidan Roumji ) was Sultan of Zinder in present-day Niger from 1893 to 1899 .

He is also known as Amadou May Roumji (after the place where he died) and Amadou Kouran Daga ("Amadou the fighting hyena "). An alternative spelling of his name is Amadou dan Tanimoun .

Life

Amadou dan Ténimoun was a younger brother of the Sultan Sélimane dan Ténimoun . After his death in 1893, he was appointed the new sultan by the dignitaries of the court. The territory of the Sultan of Zinder was called Damagaram and belonged to the realm of Bornu . The empire has been in a civil war since Rabih az-Zubayr came to power , which is why Amadou could not be formally installed as sultan by Bornu. The former ruling dynasty of Bornu in exile recognized Amadou and required him to openly oppose Rabih az-Zubayr, which he avoided. Instead, he continued the policy of conquest of his predecessor Ténimoun dan Sélimane.

During the six years of Amadou dan Ténimoun's reign, Damagaram was continuously at war. The sultan first put down independence struggles in the area east of Gouré and then turned to Machina , Nguru and Gumel - southern provinces of Bornus in what is now Nigeria . Under the command of Aboki, the Serki n'foulani ( Fiilbe -Anführer) of Zinder, the Sultan of Machina was captured and the province Machina Damagaram connected. Damagaram then conquered the Sultanate of Nguru and installed a new Sultan there, subordinate to Damagaram. However, the siege of Gumel ended unsuccessfully.

Amadou directed his efforts to power now on areas outside Bornus. The loss-making fights against the Sultanate of Kano and areas dependent on it, which lasted until 1899 , did not result in a final decision. In 1897, Captain Marius Gabriel Cazemajou set out for Bornu to negotiate with Rabih az-Zubayr about his respect for the French borders in West and Equatorial Africa. When Cazemajou approached Zinder in April 1898, Amadou first sent him the message that he would only accept the (colonial) rule of the Ottoman Empire , but not France over his sultanate, and finally invited him to Zinder. Amadou feared an anti-Zinder coalition between France and Rabih az-Zubayr and was also influenced by Islamic clerics who were expecting a new crusade , and had Cazemajou and his translator murdered. Thereupon a French military expedition set in motion and defeated the Sultan on July 29, 1899 in the battle of Tirmini . Amadou ordered the evacuation of Zinder and fled to the country. On September 16, 1899, the French troops tracked him down in Guidan Roumji and killed him.

Amadou dan Ténimoun's successor chosen by the French as Sultan of Zinder was Amadou dan Bassa .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Addo Mahamane: L'État et le contrôle des chefs militaire en Afrique précoloniale . In: Idrissa Kimba (ed.): Armée et politique au Niger . Codesria, Dakar 2008, ISBN 2-86978-216-0 , p. 24.
  2. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 140-141.
  3. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 57-58.
  4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 222.
personal data
SURNAME Amadou dan Tenimoun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amadou dan Tanimoun (alternative spelling); Amadou May Roumji (nickname); Amadou Kouran Daga (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sultan of Zinder
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1899
Place of death Guidan Roumdji