Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo (born 1956) is a Guinean poet, novelist and playwright who writes in both French and Fulani. [1]
Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo (born 1956) is a Guinean poet, novelist and playwright who writes in both French and Fulani. [1]
Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo was born in 1956 in Labé, Guinea. [2]
She has also worked as an agricultural engineer.
In 2002 she and Bonata Dieng founded the Fouta Djallon Museum in Labé. [3]
"Liberté" is the national anthem of Guinea. Adopted upon independence in 1958, it was arranged by Fodéba Keïta and is based on the melody of a Maninka praise song by Korofo Moussa for 19th-century Fouta Djallon king Alpha Yayo Diallo.
Fouta Djallon is a highland region in the center of Guinea, roughly corresponding with Middle Guinea, in West Africa.
El Hajj Aboubacar Somparé was a Guinean politician who was President of the National Assembly of Guinea from 2002 to 2008. He was previously Guinea's Ambassador to France from 1978 to 1984 and was Secretary-General of the Unity and Progress Party (PUP) from 1995 to 2002.
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana is a Guinean politician who served as Prime Minister of Guinea between 21 May 2018 and 5 September 2021.
Pita , is a town in the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea. It is the capital and largest urban center of the Pita Prefecture.
Ahmadou, was one of the last Almamis of the Fula Imamate of Futa Jallon, in the Futa Jallon region of today's Guinea.
Camp Boiro or Camp Mamadou Boiro (1960–1984) is a defunct Guinean concentration camp within Conakry city. During the regime of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, thousands of political opponents were imprisoned at the camp. It has been estimated that almost 5,000 people were executed or died from torture or starvation at the camp. According to other estimates, the number of victims was ten times higher: 50,000.
Kabiné Komara was Prime Minister of Guinea from 30 December 2008 to 26 January 2010. Until the end of 2008 a director at the African Export-Import Bank in Cairo, Egypt, Komara was announced as the new Prime Minister in a government radio broadcast on 30 December.
Trade unions in Guinea were historically important - having played a pivotal role in the country's independence movement - and in recent years have again assumed a leading role.
Siradiou Diallo, a Fulani, was a Guinean journalist and politician of the opposition party Union for Progress and Renewal. He was a candidate during the 1993 Guinean presidential election where he received 11.86% of the vote. He also stood for presidency in the 1998 Guinean presidential election and the 2003 Guinean presidential election.
Lansana Diané was a general and a minister in the cabinet of Ahmed Sekou Touré, President of Guinea during the First Republic (1958–1984). The military government that took power after Touré's death executed him in 1985.
Siaka Touré (1935–1985) was the commandant of Camp Boiro in Conakry, Guinea during the regime of Guinean President Ahmed Sékou Touré. During this period, many of the president's political opponents died in the camp.
The Ignace Deen Hospital is a hospital in Conakry, Guinea built during the colonial era. The hospital is situated next to the National Museum.
Jean-Marie Bayol was a French army doctor, colonial administrator and politician.
Mohammad Dinah Salifou Camara was the last king of the Nalu people of Guinea. He is often presented as one of the great figures of resistance to colonial penetration into sub-Saharan Africa, but also has some notoriety for his noted participation at Expo 1889 in Paris. At the end of his life, he was exiled to Saint-Louis, Senegal, under house arrest, where he died in poverty. Dinah Salifou was the holder of the Légion d'honneur.
Thierno Diawo Pellel, was one of the great twentieth century poets of Fouta Djallon.
Aimé Olivier de Sanderval, comte de Sanderval, was a French adventurer, explorer of West Africa, entrepreneur and author.
Thierno Abdourahmane Bah was Guinean writer, poet, Muslim theologian and Fula political personality of Fouta Djallon. He is regarded as one of the most important representatives of Islamic science and Fula culture of Fouta Djallon.
Maurice Cocagnac was a French Dominican priest, theologian, painter, writer and singer, as well as a great traveler. Between 1955 and 1960 he became especially known by the new spiritual songs he created and accompanied on guitar throughout France and Germany. He was awarded the Prix Broquette-Gonin in 1985 for his book Les Racines de l'âme indienne.
Boubacar Barry is a Senegalese Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He was the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association, and he was selected as the 2016 honorary member of the American Historical Association.
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