Nobles et pouvoirs dans le Khasso pré-colonial

Nobility in the Khassonke people is recruted among the descendants of the founding Hero, according to the patrilineal filiation, and does not coincide with the free men class or horon. Inheritance remains practically in one family, whose activity is related to war et not to economies. Owing to these two components, Malinké and Fula, of the Khassonke society, nobility and power do not exactly correspond. With the Malinké, the dismemberment of the Mandingue empire brought about the birth of hardly structured confederations controlled by the elders of noble families who did not hold constraint sway over people. The Fula power, born at the end of the 17th century rebellion, warlike, conquering and centralized in the victor family, Yamadou Hawa Diallo, broke up into five small kingdoms around 1800. The nobility (Diallo) represented a well distinct and privileged social class. The Yamadou Hawa charter ensured the supremacy of the bambera clan nobility in the Khassonke society, whose captives stand for the supreme wealth. In practice, the nobility did not have any solid material basis and as a matter of fact shared the power with the horon and even the namaxala (caste people).