Baramba
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| Country | File:Flag of Mali.svg Mali |
| Region | Sikasso Region |
| Cercle | Koutiala Cercle |
| Commune | Nampé |
| Elevation | 312 m (1,024 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Baramba is a village and administrative centre (chef-lieu) of the commune of Nampé in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali.[1][a] The village is 25 km north of Koutiala.
The French explorer René Caillié stopped at Baramba on 18 February 1828 on his journey to Timbuktu. He was travelling with a caravan transporting kola nuts to Djenné. In his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo published in 1830, he refers to the village as Bamba.[2] Caillié wrote:
After proceeding four miles we halted at the village of Bamba, which is shaded by boababs. At the market I observed that women wore glass rings in the nose; and some had these ornaments made of gold or copper. This village contains three to four hundred inhabitants.[3]
The route of Caillié's caravan passed a few kilometers to the west of what is now the town of Koutiala. The town did not exist at the time: it was founded at the end of the 19th century by the French army after the conquest.[2]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Written as Barhamba on the 1:200,000 Koutiala map issued by the French Institut Geographique National (IGN) in 1970.
References
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- ^ a b Viguier 2008, p. 60.
- ^ Caillié 1830, p. 425.
Sources
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