S'Nabou

thumb|S'Nabou in Le Monde illustré, 2 July 1892 '''Alima S'Nabou''' (born c. 1880) was an African interpreter (from modern day Nigeria) who accompanied a French explorer named Lieutenant Mizon.

== Biography == Alima S'Nabou was born to a chief, Konanki, in the village of Igbobé, near Lokodja located at the confluence of the Benoue and Niger rivers. She spoke and understood French, English, and other languages of the Niger Basin. S'Nabou was in Assaba, a location about 200 kilometres from her native village at age 10 or 11 when she met Mizon and her mother recommended that she accompany Mizon's mission to Lokodja so she could see her father, as Mizon was en route to Lokodja to see the developments there. At Lokodja, S'Nabou informed her father and grandmother that she would accompany Mizon on his expedition to Yola, the capital of Adamoua. The goal of the expedition was to connect the French posts in Yola to the Congo and to ensure separation of the German and French colonies by preventing the inward expansion of the German colony of Cameroon.