Khady Diallo | |
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| Born | 1955 |
| Nationality | Ivory Coast |
Khady Diallo (born 1955) is an Ivory Coast Francophile and cultural engineer. She was associated with the first edition of "Le grand dictionnaire encyclopédique de la Côte d'Ivoire". She was the Ivorian cultural attache in Paris and she was appointed the General Secretary of the National Commission of the Francophonie in Côte d'Ivoire in 2014.
Diallo was born in the capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan in 1955. She graduated in 1973 and became qualified in audiovisual production at the Société française de production in 1977. In 1979 she produced "I Love TV" for transmission on the Ivory Coast. The main presenter was Roger Fulgence Kassy .
In 1983 she oversaw with the creation of an encyclopaedic dictionary for the Ivory Coast which had been researched extensively by Raymond Borremans. This work was published in six volumes in 1986 after funding by New African Editions and the Ministry of Higher Education. [1] The encyclopedia continued to further editions. [2]
In 1996 she was involved in preparing the first programme to discuss AIDS on Ivorian television.
In 2010 she was responsible for "Fashion" at the World Festival of Black Arts in Dakar. She was the Ivorian cultural attache in Paris in 2007 and she was appointed the General Secretary of the National Commission of the Francophonie in Côte d'Ivoire in 2014. [1]
Diallo is an officer in the Ivorian l`ordre Cultural Merit.
Dyula is a language of the Mande language family spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali, and also in some other countries, including Ghana, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. It is one of the Manding languages and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in West Africa and is spoken by millions of people, either as a first or second language. Similar to the other Mande languages, it uses tones. It may be written in the Latin, Arabic or N'Ko scripts.
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is the port city of Abidjan. It borders Guinea to the northwest, Liberia to the west, Mali to the northwest, Burkina Faso to the northeast, Ghana to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. Its official language is French, and indigenous languages are also widely used, including Bété, Baoulé, Dioula, Dan, Anyin, and Cebaara Senufo. In total, there are around 78 different languages spoken in Ivory Coast. The country has a religiously diverse population, including numerous followers of Islam, Christianity, and indigenous faiths such as Animism.
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux, was the first president of Ivory Coast, serving from 1960 until his death in 1993. A tribal chief, he worked as a medical aide, union leader and planter before being elected to the French Parliament. He served in several ministerial positions within the French government before leading Ivory Coast following independence in 1960. Throughout his life, he played a significant role in politics and the decolonisation of Africa.
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Alassane Dramane Ouattara is an Ivorian politician who has been President of Ivory Coast since 2010. An economist by profession, Ouattara worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Bank of West African States, and he was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993, appointed to that post by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Ouattara became the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party, in 1999.
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Abdourahmane Cissé is an Ivorian politician, engineer and economist. He presently serves as Secretary General of the Presidency. He was previously the Petroleum, Energy and Renewable Energies Minister of Ivory Coast under Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko and Budget Minister of Ivory Coast under Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan.
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Regina Yaou was a writer from Ivory Coast.
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