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in 1512. There are two conflicting accounts of Koli's whereabouts when he took power. In one telling, his father had left him in Futa
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Koli's base in Futa Jallon soon came under Malian pressure and this, along with a famine, drove him to leave the mountains. He proceeded to invade large swathes of what is now eastern
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