Touba, Boké

Touba
Sub-prefecture and town
Touba Location in Guinea
Coordinates: 11°36′00″N 13°02′00″W
Country	Guinea
Region	Boké Region
Prefecture	Gaoual Prefecture
Population
• Total	26,260
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

Touba is a town and sub-prefecture in the Gaoual Prefecture in the Boké Region of north-western Guinea.^[1] As of 2014,^[update] it had a population of 26,260 people.^[2]

The city is a major center of Islam in the region, particularly the Qadiriyya Sufi order and the Jakhanke people.^[3]

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.^[4] By the late 1800s, it was one of the biggest slave markets of the region.^[5]

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.