Farako is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Ségou in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. The commune lies on the north bank of the Niger River and contains 11 settlements in an area of 200 square kilometers.. In the 2009 census it had a population of 17,570. The town of Farako is the chef-lieu of the commune.
Farako was an important military garrison town under the Segou Empire.Segou: Warfare and the Origins of a State of Slavery, by Kevin MacDonald and Seydou Camara, in Lane, Paul, and Kevin C. MacDonald (eds), Slavery in Africa: Archaeology and Memory, Proceedings of the British Academy (London, 2011), page 30 https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264782.001.0001. It was one of the main headquarters of the Bambara resistance to the Toucouleur Empire from 1862 to 1891.
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