Muntaga Tall (faama)

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'''Muntaga''' or '''Mountaga Tall''' was a son of El Hajj Umar Tall, founder of the Toucouleur Empire. In 1874 he was given command of Nioro du Sahel by his brother Ahmadu Tall, and quickly had to suppress a rebellion led by the towns of Tambacara in Diafunu and Sero in Jambukhu.{{sfn|Pollet|Winter|1971|p=68-70}}{{sfn|Monteil|1915|p=370-2}}

Muntaga himself rebelled against his brother in 1884. Ahmadu marched from Segou and laid siege to Nioro. This internal strife played a key role in weakening the Toucouleur Empire and facilitating its conquest by the French.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kanya-Forstner |first1=A. S. |title=West African Resistance: the Military Response to Colonial Occupation |date=1971 |editor-last=Crowther|editor-first=Michael |publisher=Africana Publishing |location=New York |chapter=Mali-Tukolor|page=67}}</ref>

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===Sources=== * {{citation|title=Les Khassonké : monographie d'une peuplade du Soudan français |pages=528 |location=Paris |publisher=E. Leroux |year=1915 |last= Monteil |first = Charles}} * {{cite book |last1=Pollet |first1=Eric |last2=Winter |first2=Grace |title=La Société Soninké (Dyahunu, Mali) |date=1971 |publisher=Editions de l’Institut de Sociologie de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles |location=Brussels}}

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