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Sub-prefecture and town in Boké Region, Guinea
Touba
Sub-prefecture and town
Touba is located in GuineaToubaToubaLocation in Guinea
Coordinates: 11°36′00″N 13°02′00″W / 11.60000°N 13.03333°W / 11.60000; -13.03333
Country Guinea
RegionBoké Region
PrefectureGaoual Prefecture
Population
 • Total26,260
Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)

Touba is a town and sub-prefecture in the Gaoual Prefecture in the Boké Region of north-western Guinea. As of 2014, it had a population of 26,260 people.

The city is a major center of Islam in the region, particularly the Qadiriyya Sufi order and the Jakhanke people.

History

Touba was founded in 1815 by al-Hajj Salimu Kasama, better known as Karamokho Ba, on the main axis between the Imamate of Futa Jallon and Kaabu. By the late 1800s, it was one of the biggest slave markets of the region.

References

  1. "Subprefectures of Guinea". Statoids. Retrieved April 19, 2009.
  2. "Guinea". Institut National de la Statistique, Guinea, accessed via Geohive. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  3. Jean Suret-Canale, « Touba in Guinea, holy place of Islam », in C. H. Allen and R. W. Johnson, African perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 1970, p. 53-81
  4. Giesing & Vydrine 2007, p. 12, 185.
  5. Giesing & Vydrine 2007, p. 185.

Sources

  • Giesing, Cornelia; Vydrine, Valentin, eds. (2007). Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau): La mémoire des Mandinka et des Sòoninkee du Kaabu (in French). Boston: Leiden.
Gaoual Prefecture
Capital: Gaoual
Sub-prefectures
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