GNAPON'S SON NAMBOLOSSE LEADS THEIR RESISTANCE
seizure of legacy
It is he who is killed in 1878, when "too old to fight."
-- Dakar archives, 1878
He is the Senufo hero:"He made the traders respect us. He forced them to speak our tongue. He pillaged caravans and said, 'If I renounce crime, how will I eat?'
-- Serisio Coulibali, farmer
Gone from the web
The scars suggest Sonnangui, animist producers for markets who ally with Muslim traders and conquerors (please read on).
After Nambolosse's death the Senufo continue their attacks.They distinguish between local and long-distance traders, assaulting only caravans with donkeys, which are raised in the north.
-- Dakar archives, 1891, confirmed by interlocutors.
Donkeys are not raised so near the forest, with its deadly tsetse flies.
They leave the Dyula petty traders alone, for they have become part of Senufo society like the marabout whose prayers helped found Bokhala. Their Islam is so "lax" that their elders are often drunk in public.
-- Drunk in public:
Journal de Braulot, Dakar archives, 1893
They will not use Islam to defy the traditional order.
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- "We let the little Dyula be, but the Soninke were like fish. We did not know where they came from or where they were going, and we caught them like fish."
-- Bafétigui Coulibali, imam of Dabakalakoro.
- "We:" the imam identifies with the animists against other Muslims: Please read on.
Senufo resistance works. For over 15 years raiders devastate territories to the east and west, but spare Djimini.
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Pillaging the caravans of disruptive producers
by massacring their labor, forbidding their religion,
Etc.
End of this section.
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