Segu

Segu, or SEGU-SIKORO, an important trading town of western Africa, stands on the Niger (here called the Joliba), 400 miles SW. of Timbuctoo. It was formerly the capital of a large native state, which has lost power under the successive conquests of the Toucouleurs, the Bambarra, and the French (1890). The traders are chiefly Arabs. Pop. 36,000. See Gravier, Voyage à Segu (1887).