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Topic: Mandingo-French War, First
Location: Kalambo Falls Tanzania

Mandingo-French War, First

Years: 1883 - 1886

The Mandingo Wars are a series of conflicts from 1883 to 1898 between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo people led by Samory Touré.

The French are ultimately triumphant and establish dominance over the Ivory Coast.In the First Mandingo War, 1883-1886, Samory opposes French ambitions to build an empire in West Africa.

He goes to war with the French in 1883.

French troops occupy Bamako on the Niger River and settle the war after a successful offensive in 1886.

Samory is forced to accept the Niger as his frontier.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)