Déoulé

Déoulé lies in eastern Adar, a country of valleys and plateaux on the southern side of the Sahara. It became the seat of the Sarkin Magori, whose authority extended over neighbouring villages. Among the communities associated with the chief were the people of Jibalé, renowned for their archers and their military alliance with Magori.

According to local traditions, the Magorawa came south from Aïr in the seventeenth century and settled at several places before Ali, son of Rubaba, established himself at Déoulé. When he inherited the title of Sarkin Magori, the centre of power gradually shifted there from Takwashi. The chiefdom endured under successive overlords, first the ruler of Kebbi and then the Sarkin Adar, who conferred the title on its chiefs.