Seku Amadu — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Seku Amadu (Ahmadu ibn Muhammadu Lobbo, c. 1776 – 20 April 1845), the Fulbe founder of the Massina Empire (Diina of Hamdullahi) in the Inner Niger Delta of present-day Mali, who ruled as Almami from 1818 until his death; it recounts his upbringing, his pupilage under the Qadiriyya teacher Sidi Mukhtar al-Kunti, his jihad, the founding of Hamdullahi, the policies of his theocratic state, and his death and succession by his son Amadu II.