Former capital of the kingdom of Gadiaga the 16th century where Bathily have always been and continue to be still the reigning dynasty , Tuabou wants to regain his breath. This town whose existence dates back to over 1400 years was the traditional residence of Tounka and served as strategic point valiant fighter Mamadou Lamine Drame in 1886. Tuabou today drink the chalice to the dregs, and wants to shine to its past its new attraction.
It is a truism to say that our countrymen do not have very extensive geographical knowledge . Just ask a citizen living in any region a simple question about a place to be convinced . At Bakel , our team has experience in trying to locate the position of the kingdom of Gadiaga ( land of war ) .
To our surprise , we lost a lot of saliva before having the right information. That the city of Bakel itself is located in an ancient kingdom founded by Soninke who bore the surname Bakiri or Bathily , and does not even have to deliver battle to settle in the region. This medieval kingdom now seems to have disappeared from maps and even ... memories . According to history professor Abdou Khadre Tandia , "the Gadiaga was a Soninke settlement area . The inhabitants were installed after the decline of the empire of Ghana between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . Before 1833, the Gadiaga was a single state, divided in two by the Falémé . Downstream of the confluence of the river stretched the Goye and Kamera upstream . " Bathed by the Senegal River and Falémé the Gadiaga extended over the lands adjacent republics of Senegal, Mali and Mauritania . However, his story is one of those all the more confused and less well known West African provinces .