Baramba

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This article is about the village in Mali. For the town in India, see Baramba, India. For the princely state, see Baramba State.

Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 235: malformed pattern (missing ']'). 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][lower-alpha 1] 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]

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Viguier 2008, p. 60.
  3. ↑ Caillié 1830, p. 425.


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