Bandiagara

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>Bandiagara is said to have been founded in 1770 by Nangabanu Tembély, a Dogon hunter.
</p><p>In 1864, <a href="/facts/Tidiani_Tall/SuH6c3qM">Tidiani Tall</a>, <a href="/facts/Umar_Tall/E9kKxcWf">El Hadj Umar Tall</a>'s nephew and successor, chose Bandiagara as capital of the <a href="/facts/Toucouleur_empire/n9RoUYCH">Toucouleur empire</a>.
</p><p>It is the birthplace of Malian authors <a href="/facts/Amadou_Hamp%25C3%25A2t%25C3%25A9_B%25C3%25A2/ALuICqRb">Amadou Hampâté Bâ</a>, <a href="/facts/Madina_Ly-Tall/WtrulFGI">Madina Ly-Tall</a> and <a href="/facts/Yambo_Ouologuem/NrU0ydzw">Yambo Ouologuem</a>.
</p><p>In the music video for the song <i>Reset</i> by <a href="/facts/Three_Trapped_Tigers/mhK32kEF">Three Trapped Tigers</a> it is shown as the location of an alien rune.
</p><p>As of 2018 the town remained insecure with attacks on hotels used by UN staff being reported.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Nine soldiers were killed and nine wounded in an attack on a police station on February 25, 2021.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Bandiagara_Escarpment/zm9KltBp">Bandiagara Escarpment</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ounjougou/sEXoNE6D">Ounjougou</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Union_of_the_Populations_of_Bandiagara/w6PWBf3q">Union of the Populations of Bandiagara</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li>This article was originally based on the corresponding article in the French Wikipedia, accessed April 9, 2005. Additional reference was made to this article on Dec. 14, 2006.</li>
<li>B.O. Oloruntimeehin. The Segu Tukulor Empire. Humanities Press, New York (1972). SBN 391002066</li>
<li><a href="https://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?CID=31&ID_SITE=516&l=en">UNESCO site about the Cliff of Bandiagara</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dogon-guide.com">Dogon Country</a></li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Moran, Steven; Forkel, Robert; Heath, Jeffrey, eds. (2016). "Bandiagara". dogonlanguages.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22. <a href="https://dogonlanguages.org/villages/302" target="_blank">https://dogonlanguages.org/villages/302</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>*Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Urbaine de Bandiagara 2006-2010 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-26, retrieved 2012-04-24. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120826111101/http://www.aec.msu.edu/fs2/mali_fd_strtgy/plans/mopti/bandiagara/psa_bandiagara.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120826111101/http://www.aec.msu.edu/fs2/mali_fd_strtgy/plans/mopti/bandiagara/psa_bandiagara.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Gunmen kill one, wound others in central Mali hotel attack". Reuters. 2018-03-28. Retrieved 2023-09-25. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mali-security-idUSKBN1H43DV" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mali-security-idUSKBN1H43DV</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"Nine soldiers killed in central Mali attack". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. February 26, 2021. Retrieved February 28, 2021. <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/several-soldiers-killed-in-central-mali-attack" target="_blank">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/several-soldiers-killed-in-central-mali-attack</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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