The Empire of Great Fulo,

 

The Empire of Great Fulo, otherwise called the Denanke Kingdom was a preislamic Pulaar kingdom of Senegal, which overwhelmed the Futa Tooro locale. Its populace commanded its neighbors through utilization of cavalry and battled wars against the Mali and Songhai realms. The state started as a rough relocation of Fula travelers from Futa Djallon into the Gambia headed by Tengella, their first ruler or manga, in 1490. His assault was guided against the staying Atlantic regions of the Mali Empire. Despite the fact that without a settled central command, Tengella's after developed so expansive that he was alluded to as the "Extraordinary lord of the Fulos" or the "Incredible Fulo" in Portuguese records of the same period. From the Gambia he headed his powers northeast against the developing Songhai Empire where he was crushed and murdered in 1512. A short time later, power was gone to his child, Koli Tengella. The mangas that emulated Koli Tengella were all slipped from him and given the name Denyanke or Deny Kobe. They kept on being a real power in the district managing as animist rulers over an inexorably Islamic masses. Their line was ousted by the Imamate of Futa Toro headed by Abd-el-Kadr Toorodi in 1776 introducing a close nonstop period of Muslim Fula administer over the locale.