Qualla: Upper Senegal and Niger https://qualla.com/upper-senegal-and-niger en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Upper Senegal and Niger https://qualla.com/upper-senegal-and-niger Upper Senegal and Niger: Introduction https://qualla.com/upper-senegal-and-niger/ Some countries are born from rivers, some from kingdoms, and some from the stroke of a colonial pen. On 21 October 1904, a French decree on the reorganization of French West Africa created a colony with an unwieldy name: Upper Senegal and Niger. It stitched together the territories of Upper Senegal, the Middle Niger, and the military Niger lands into a single block of roughly 780,000 square kilometers. The administrators eventually fixed their capital at Bamako, then a growing river town. The colony would last only seventeen years, yet within its shifting borders lay the rough draft of the country we now call Mali.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/4/r/upper-senegal-and-niger-wp/ef4r-upper-senegal-and-niger-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Upper Senegal and Niger: Borders Drawn and Redrawn https://qualla.com/upper-senegal-and-niger/ The colony was never a settled thing. A decree in March 1907 added the cercles of Fada N'gourma and Say, taken from French Dahomey, present-day Benin. On 1 January 1912, the military territory of Niger was split off, eventually becoming a colony of its own in 1922. The capital it...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/4/r/upper-senegal-and-niger-wp/ef4r-upper-senegal-and-niger-resistance-from-the-start.mp3 0:06 3 full Upper Senegal and Niger: The War That Redrew the Map https://qualla.com/upper-senegal-and-niger/ The greatest challenge came between 1915 and 1917 in the western Volta region, in what is known as the Volta-Bani War. The uprising proved vastly popular and, for a time, successful, defying colonial authority for more than a year across an area stretching from Koudougou, in pres...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/f/4/r/upper-senegal-and-niger-wp/ef4r-upper-senegal-and-niger-the-war-that-redrew-the-map.mp3 0:06 4 full Upper Senegal and Niger: Divided and Renamed https://qualla.com/upper-senegal-and-niger/ The unsuspected success of that resistance had consequences. After the First World War, the French issued a decree on 1 March 1919 dividing the colony in two. The eastern cercles, Gaoua, Bobo-Dioulasso, Dedougou, Ouagadougou, Dori, Say, and Fada N'gourma, became French Upper Volt...

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