Olléléwa

Olléléwa lies in the Sahelian country south of Aïr, between Tânout and the lands around Zinder. It is the seat of a Tuareg chieftaincy founded in the seventeenth century. To the south rose the Damagaram Sultanate, centred on Zinder, while Aïr and its Tuareg communities lay to the north. The settlement belonged to a region where the desert's southern margins meet the more densely settled Hausa country.