Tabon

Tabon belongs to the Manding country of the upper Niger, near the gold-bearing region of Bouré. In accounts of the founding of Mali, Tabon is associated with a branch of the Kamara lineage and its leader Fran Kamara, also called Tabon Wana. Manding oral traditions remember him among the allies of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali empire. These stories place Tabon within a landscape of neighbouring chiefdoms whose histories were preserved and retold by generations of griots.