Talk:Mandara Kingdom
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[edit] Verification
I'm having trouble verifying this information (these two rulers don't seem to be included in lists of rulers either here or here), so I'm moving it to here pending referencing:
"The Mandara kingdom was composed of a number of uncoordinated city states until Abdul Ali Atuk united them into a very wealthy kingdom. Atuk built roads using his enemies' warriors as slave labour. This had a particular advantage over "average" slaves becuase slaves who used to be in the military were much stronger than others. He is believed to have had 3 wives and many sons. It is widely believed that he went to Mecca for Hajj but there remains a lack of information how he got there and the exact year he went.
"After his Hajj, Atuk became a feverant Muslim and claimed that he was a decendant of Muhammad the prophet. He converted his empire to Islam partly because of his Hajj and pressure from other strong Muslim nations in the region. One of Atuk's sons was caught and killed in a slave raid when he was on a trip in Western Africa. Atuk then spent the rest of his life trying to break up the slave trade until his death. His greatest victory was that against Portuguese slave raiders in the Congo and an invasion of French west Africa which resulted in many slaves and people in forced labour camps being set free.
"Atuk was suceeded by his grandson, Majean Isn Atuk, who by the end of his reign watched the empire his father built recollapse into city states. Majean was assassinated by an unknown group of men. It is commonly believed that chiefs of western city states killed him because he was against the slave trade like his grandfather. The city state chief were believed to have been approached by France or Belgium and offered large sums of money in exchange for slaves." --Dvyost 22:42, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
- Well, I added what I could from the sources I have available. Unfortunately, none of them mentions anything from the paragraphs you deleted. The second and third paragraphs in particular sound like nonsense, but I could be wrong, I suppose . . . . BrianSmithson 21:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
