id
	12696
Url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/12696
Modèle de ressource
	Book chapter
Classe de ressource
	bibo:Chapter
Titre
	Kubafolo or Bafilo
Editeur
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25172 Brill
Date
	2012
Type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8440 Article d'encyclopédie
Identifiant
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115706351 Q115706351
	iwac-reference-0000543
Langue
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322 Anglais
Titre alternatif
	Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
Résumé
	Kubafolo or Bafilo, the centre of the administrative region of Northern Togo, situated in lat. 8° 40′ N. and long, 1′ 30’ E., 73 km. north of Sokodé. It owes its origin to the unforeseen halting of a column of Gonja warriors led by Mama, ruler of Pembi, and which was returning from a campaign against Djougou at the beginning of the 19th century. They stopped at Séméré (now in the People’s Republic of Benin), and a group settled there. The warriors were tired by a long march through the mountain regions, but did not dare to ask their chief to stop; however, the latter’s horse stopped to urinate, and the warriors seized the opportunity to halt. Finding the spot pleasant, they set up an encampment which they named Gobangafol (from banga “horse” and mbofol “urine”). These Gouang warriors settling there married Tern women and adopted the Tern language. The traditions vary concerning this expedition; according to Goody, it was probably commanded by Soumaïla Ndewura Jakpa, king of Pembi, and according to others, by Mama, with Séméré and Bafilo being founded by rebellious dissidents rather than by disciplined soldiers.
Couverture spatiale
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/544 Togo
Provenance
	Leiden
Liste des auteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1909 Robert Cornevin
Liste des rédacteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1929 Peri J. Bearman
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1930 Thierry Bianquis
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1932 Clifford Edmund Bosworth
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1931 Emeri J. van Donzel
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1933 Wolfhart Heinrichs
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_4462 10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_4462

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