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Mamadi Kandia
Mamadi Kandia was the last king of Kaarta, the Bambara state of the Massassi dynasty in the western Sahel. In 1854 the Tijani jihad leader Umar Tall conquered Kaarta, took its capital Nioro and executed him. Kaarta then became part of Umar's Toucouleur empire, which ruled it until the French conquest.
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