Kankan

After spending two years in Bankalan with his eldest brother (Fédé-Moudouba), before founding his first village in some where, Dauda Kaba found a new place and demanded Fedemoudou Conde in Makonon to give him. He started asking him until he understood that he's the son of his sister (Dousou Conde), he then asked him, where do you need? I am thinking about the Drametou area. He gives him and says: anywhere that you are thinking around there, I give you.

At this moment, the place was a hamlet's jungle with numerous baobab trees. The village was founded around 1690's. The place where he built his first house is actually the residence of the president located in Kankan, named as (Villas Sylli).

Kankan didn't have representative authority, king or other forms of governing. They formed the theocratic and cultural form and held a few of the army to protect the town from the slave sellers and holders. They spent a long time teaching the children with the Quran and other cultural activities. They were also building little fortresses (Jin) in some parts of the town for the people's shelter during the wars.

In 1767, when they got information that Conde-béréma Diakité (Wasolon) is preparing to attack their state, all the inhabitants of Bate including Kankan, were immigrated to Fouta Jalon especially Timbo and Fougoumba due to Islamic relation between the two theocratic states. The immigration took seven years. On their return from Fouta Djallon, the city was rebuilt as six districts and two were renamed after their immigration towns, Fougoumba and Timbon, and the latest one is actually remaining.

Another war against Kankan was prepared by other kings of Wasolon, Diédi and Djiba (or DJI), to first conquering Kankan the capital of the state, which was defeated by the Kankan's army directed by Alpha-Mamoudou Kaba.

After defeating Jamoro Aji and Ouorokodo Famoudou in the Battle of Saman-Saman, Kankan sent the emissaries to sign up the theocratic alliance with Samori and incited to fight the unfaithful people and signed the peace treaty with him.

While Samori was trying to conquering the Cissé's kingdom, he invited Bate (Kankan) to be helping him on this war, which Kankan categorically refused, due to a marriage, because one of the Séré-Bréma's wife (Mali Kaba) was married from Kankan. Which Samori judged as a betrayal, and sent troops to besiege the town within three months. During these sieges, Mamadi Kaba (commonly known as Dayi Kaba) miracles moved in the besieged city, and the town was totally surrounded in 1881's. During this siege, Karifamoudouya sent troops to break the siege over Kankan, but they were repealed and massacred until they crossed the River (Gbourouroun), which is the border between two cities.

He ran and joined the French colonial forces in Ségou, participating all the war until Kankan was freed from Samori's troops in 1891, and on their fleeing, the Sofas put fire into the city.

Kankan was founded by the Soninke people in the 18th century, after which it became an important trading centre, particularly for kola nuts, and the capital of the Baté Empire.[4] The population of the city is predominantly from the Mandinka ethnic group and their language is widely spoken throughout the city.

The French explorer René Caillié spent a month in Kankan in 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present-day Guinea, to Djenné and Timbuktu in Mali. He arrived with a caravan transporting kola nuts. He described the visit in his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo. The town had a population of 6,000 inhabitants and was an important commercial centre with a market held three times a week. Instead of having a surrounding mud wall, the town was defended by quickset hedges. The chief of the town refused Caillié permission to travel along the river to the north as the town of Kankan was fighting for control of the Bouré gold producing area around Siguiri and the Tinkisso River. Instead Caillié left the town heading east in the direction of Minignan in the Ivory Coast.[5][6]

The town was conquered by Samory Touré in 1881 and occupied by the French in 1891.

In 1904, the city is chosen as the final destination during the construction of the Conakry railway in Kankan.