page_title: Central Africa
section_title: Wadai Empire
hierarchical_section_title: Central Africa / History / Wadai Empire
caption_attribution_description: La ville d'Abéché, vue du poste Français. Dans le fond le pavillon à étage (en briques) construit du temps du Kolak Ali. From L'Afrique Équatoriale Française: le pays, les habitants, la colonisation, les pouvoirs publics. Préf. de M. Merlin. Avec 186 reproductions photographiques, 33 diagrammes, profils, et 7 cartes dont 5 en couleurs. (published 1918).
context_page_description: Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions. Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe are members of the Economic Community of Central African States. Six of those states are also members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa and share a common currency, the Central African CFA franc. The African Development Bank defines Central Africa as Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Middle Africa is an analogous term used by the United Nations in its geoscheme for Africa. It includes the same countries as the African Development Bank's definition, along with Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe.
context_section_description: The Wadai Empire was centered on Chad and the Central African Republic from the 17th century. The Tunjur people founded the Wadai Kingdom to the east of Bornu in the 16th century. In the 17th century there was a revolt of the Maba people who established a Muslim dynasty.
  At first Wadai paid tribute to Bornu and Durfur, but by the 18th century Wadai was fully independent and had become an aggressor against its neighbors.
caption: Abéché, capital of Wadai, in 1918 after the French had taken over
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