Abstract EN:

Geographically speaking, bate is the strip of land witch spreads on the left bank of milo river. It was conquered in the 16 th century by the soninke and the malinke converted to islam, called mandeng-mori or manikamori, who founded in bate a muslin kafo (or state) consisting of twelve villages united under the authority of a kanda, the political head and quargian of the islamic faith. He chooses the chief iman of kankan, who embodies the spiritual authority. Through their political and cultural resistance to french civilization, the manikamori were to stand out in the colonial history of french guinea. On, bate, the karamoko have created a consolation title to act as a susbstitude for the pilgrimage to mecca. This is a religious innovation noteworthy enough to be considered as a historical landmark in the cultural of the manikamori. Thus, we witness the building-up of new elite: the fode or namuntigi. The religious authorities played a prominent part in the social and political life in bate. But they took advantage of their charismatic influence to exploit indiscriminately. . .