Gaourang II of Bagirmi
Gaourang II of Bagirmi | |
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Mbang Gaourang (left) with Kolak Dud Murra of Wadai (right) | |
| Mbang of Bagirmi | |
| In office 1883–1918 | |
| Succeeded by | Mahamat Abdelkader |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1858 |
| Died | 1918 |
| Relations | Ahmed Koulamallah (son-in-law) |
Abd ar-Rahman Gaourang II (also Gaorang or Gwaranga c. 1858 – 1918) was Mbang of Bagirmi from 1885 to 1918. He came to power at a time when the sultanate was in terminal decline, subject to both Wadai and Bornu. The Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr made him his vassal in 1893. Gaourang signed a treaty that made his sultanate a French protectorate in 1897. After the final defeat of Rabih in 1900 he ruled as a subordinate of the French in Chad until his death in 1918.