Sékou Amadou — French Wikipedia

French Wikipedia article on Sékou Amadou (Cheikhou Amadou), the Fulbe marabout and adherent of the Qadiriyya who founded the Fulbe empire of Macina; it gives his birth in 1776 at Malangal near Mopti and his death in 1844 or 1845, his initiation into the Qadiriyya by the Sufi Kabara Farma, his jihad and the founding of Hamdallaye, and the succession of his son Amadou Sékou and then his grandson.