Kaocen revolt
Kaocen Revolt | |||||||
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Part of the Tuareg Rebellions and World War I (concurrent) | |||||||
Tuareg warriors, photographed 1906. | |||||||
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United Kingdom[1][failed verification] |
Tuareg guerrillas Supported by: Senussi |
The Kaocen revolt was a
1916 rising
Suppression
Finally on 3 March 1917, a large French force, which had been dispatched from
Context
The revolt led by Kaocen was just one episode in a history of recurring conflict between some Tuareg confederations and the French. In 1911, a rising of Firhoun, Amenokal of Ouelimaden was crushed in Ménaka, only to reappear in northeast Mali after his escape from French custody in 1916.
Many Tuareg groups had continually fought the French (and the Italians after their 1911 invasion of Libya) since their arrival in the last decade of the 19th century. Others were driven to revolt by the severe drought of the years 1911–14, by French taxation and seizure of camels to aid other conquests, and by French abolition of the slave trade, leading many previously subservient settled communities of the area to themselves revolt against traditional rule and taxation by the nomadic Tuareg.
Memory of the revolt and the killings in its wake remain fresh in the minds of modern Tuareg, to whom it is seen as both part of a large anti-colonial struggle, and amongst some as part of the post independence struggle for autonomy from the existing governments of Niger and its neighbors.
The Kaocen revolt can also be placed in a longer history of Tuareg conflict with ethnic
See also
References
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- ISBN 978-1-107-11905-5.
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Sources
- Decalo, Samuel (1979). Historical Dictionary of Niger. London and New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1229-0.
- Geels, Jolijn (2006). Niger. London: Bradt. ISBN 1-84162-152-8.
- Fage, J. D.; Oliver, Roland Anthony (1975). The Cambridge History of Africa. Cambridge University Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-521-22505-1.
- Idrissa, Kimba (2003). "The Kawousan War reconsidered". In Abbink, Jon; de Bruijn, Mirjam; van Walraven, Klaus (eds.). Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African History. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 191–217. hdl:1887/12904.
Further reading
- Fuglestad, Finn (1973). "Les révoltes des Touaregs du Niger (1916–1917)". .
- Salifou, Ali (1973). "Kawousan ou la révolte sénoussiste". Études nigériennes. 33. Niamey. OCLC 2014965.