...THEN CONTAINS IT

AMADU RESTRAINS THE RISE

OF THE MOST ASSERTIVE TRADERS

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Hausa trader

• Hausa legacies go to the State  

They are the traders who bring textile production to Djimini and whom several kingdoms expel.

Umar shows his favor to them when he chooses Amadu, his son by a Hausa wife, as his successor. Amadu looks Hausa and speaks Hausa, and a Hausa interlocutor in Segu told me that his father and one of Amadu's sons exchanged cordial visits.

Yet they cannot transmit their wealth.

 -- Dakar archives, 1895

• As for the Soninke, 

Amadu says... 

"Their fortunes are like the fleece of sheep,

which grows back as one cuts it."

-- Bamako archives, 1897

 In limiting profits
his theocracy remains traditional.

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