Editing Senufo people (section)

==History==
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Vrouw bezig met het wannen van rijst TMnr 20012698.jpg|thumb|180px|Senufo people traditionally have lived in circular shaped mud huts, agriculture historically is their main livelihood<ref>{{cite book|author1=Patricia Sheehan|author2=Jacqueline Ong|title=Côte D'Ivoire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2GfaBqNFRBUC&pg=PA65|year=2010|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-4854-9|pages=65–66}}</ref>]]
The Senufo people emerged as a group sometime within the 15th or 16th century.<ref name="Shoup2011p253"/> They were a significant part of the 17th to 19th-century [[Kénédougou Kingdom]] (literally "country of the plain") with the capital of [[Sikasso]]. This region saw many wars including the rule of Daoula Ba Traoré, a cruel despot who reigned between 1840 and 1877.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/><ref name=imperatolxx/> The Islamisation of the Senufo people began during this historical period of the Kénédougou Kingdom, but it was the kings & chiefs who converted, while the general Senufo population refused.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/> Daoula Ba Traoré attempted to convert his kingdom to Islam, destroying many villages within the kingdom such as Guiembe and Nielle in 1875 because they resisted his views.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427">{{cite book|author=Cyril K. Daddieh|title=Historical Dictionary of Côte d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_VptCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA427|year=2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-7389-6|pages=426–427}}</ref> The Kénédougou dynastic rulers attacked their neighbors as well, such as the [[Zarma people]] and they in turn counterattacked many times between 1883 and 1898.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/>

The pre-colonial wars and violence led to their migration into Burkina Faso in regions that became towns such as Tiembara in [[Kiembara Department]].<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/> The Kénédougou kingdom and the Traoré dynasty were dissolved in 1898 with the arrival of French colonial rule.<ref name=imperatolxx>{{cite book|author1=Pascal James Imperato|author2=Gavin H. Imperato|title=Historical Dictionary of Mali|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zf6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|year=2008|publisher=Scarecrow|isbn=978-0-8108-6402-3|pages=lxxviii, 266}}</ref>

===Slavery===
The Senufo people were both victims of and perpetrators of slavery as they victimized other ethnic groups by enslavement.<ref name="Lovejoy2011p170"/> They themselves bought and sold slaves to Muslim merchants, [[Ashanti people|Asante people]] and [[Baoulé people]]. As refugees from other West African ethnic groups escaped wars, states Paul Lovejoy, some of them moved into the Senufo lands, seized their lands and enslaved them.<ref name="Lovejoy2011p170">{{cite book|author=Paul E. Lovejoy|title=Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXVFnHqhLvcC&pg=PA170 |year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-50277-1|pages=170–171, 57–58}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Martin A. Klein|title=Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NnSmbqbtfoC&pg=PA117|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59678-7|pages=117–124}}</ref>

The largest demand for slaves initially came from the markets of [[Sudan]], and for a long time, slave trading was one an important economic activity across the Sahel and West Africa, states [[Martin A. Klein|Martin Klein]]. Sikasso and Bobo-Dioulasso were important sources of slaves captured who were then moved to [[Timbuktu]] and [[Banamba]] on their way to the Sudanese and [[Mauritania]]n slave markets.<ref name="Klein1998p53">{{cite book|author=Martin A. Klein|title=Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NnSmbqbtfoC&pg=PA53 |year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59678-7|pages=53–58}}</ref>

Those enslaved in Senufo lands worked the land, herds and served within the home. Their owner and his dependents also had the right to have sexual intercourse with female domestic slaves. The children of a female slave inherited her slave status.<ref>{{cite book|author=Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch|editor=Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers and Joseph Calder Miller|title=Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jgm69dJt4DcC&pg=PA50 |year=2007|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0-8214-1723-2|page=50}}</ref>

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