Bayan Fage: Imamancin Futa Jallon ya kasance ɗayan jihohi na ƙarshe masu zaman kansu a Senegambiya, a cikin tsaunuka inda kogin Gambiya da Kogin Senegal duk suka hauhawa. An kafa ta a matsayin tsarin mulkin mallaka a cikin jihadi wanda Karamokho Alfa ya ƙaddamar a cikin 1725, kuma magajinsa Ibrahim Sori ya ƙarfafa shi. Jihar ta kasance hadaddiyar tarayyar larduna tara, kowannensu yana karkashin jagorancin sarki. Factionsungiyoyin siyasa biyu sun fito, Alfaya da Soriya, magoya bayan zuriyar shugabannin biyu na farko. Tsarin raba iko ya samo asali wanda a karkashinsa dan takarar Alfaya ko Soriya ya cike gurbin almami, shugaban kasa. A ƙarshen karni na sha tara, Faransawa sun kasance masu mulkin mallaka a yankin, kuma suna da haƙuri da ƙiyayya ta Futa Jallon. Sun yi fushi da goyon bayan da Futa Jallon ke bai wa Samori Ture na Wassoulou Empire, wanda shi ma yana adawa da ikon Faransa. A cikin 1889 Burtaniya ta yi yarjejeniya da Faransa wacce ta gane cewa Futa Jallon yana cikin yankin Faransa. Duk da haka, Turawan ingila a Freetown, Saliyo, sun ci gaba da ba da tallafi ga Futa Jallon har zuwa 1895.