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This is probably a West African form of Ahmad. I found one site in French that stated that directly. Then the following site on Gambian names:

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http://resourcepage.gambia.dk/names.htm

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says that Amadou was "one of the names of Muhammad", and Digest of Muslim Names by Fatimah Suzanne Al Jafari, A Dictionary of Muslim Names by Salahuddin Ahmed, and The Complete Book of Muslim & Parsi Names by Gandhi & Husain all agree that Ahmed is one of the names of Muhammad. So it seems probable to me that Amadou is derived from Ahmed or Ahmad.