Marabadiassa

Marabadiassa is a town in central Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Béoumi Department in Gbêkê Region, Vallée du Bandama District. The town sits less than one kilometre south of the border of Woroba District.
Marabadiassa was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1,126 communes nationwide that were abolished.
In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of Marabadiassa was 6,640.

History

The town was originally named Tufan, and was an important stop on the dry-season trade route linking Sikasso with Bonduku. In the early 19th century, a Hausa caravan was ambushed by a local chief. The mallam of the caravan, Sulemanu, who had his holy books stolen, organized the local Hausa population to take over Tufan and turn it into a base for their protection and raids into the surrounding area. It came to be called Marabadiassa, meansing 'Hausa town' in Bambara.

The nine villages of the sub-prefecture of Marabadiassa and their population in 2014 are