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unusual facts about Amadou


Tales of Amadou Koumba

Tales of Amadou Koumba or Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba is a collection of tales from Senegal, transcribed by Birago Diop from the accounts of the griot Amadou, son of Kumba.


Amadou Coulibaly

Amadou Tinder Coulibaly (born December 31, 1984 in Bobo-Dioulasso) is a Burkinabé football player who currently plays as a right back.

Amadou Koné

Grandson of Dan Kalmo whose big brother, the legendary warlord Fanhikroi, an opponent of colonial rule, was assassinated on the road leading from Banfora to Bobo Dioulasso, Amadou Kone learn very early sense of honor by his father who, exasperated by the abuses of the French settlers and the new leaders in their pay, chose to immigrate to the Ayamé region Basse, Côte d'Ivoire, where he created plantations of coffee and cocoa with his family.

Amadou Koné was born in May 1953 in the small village of Tangora in the circle of Banfora, today Burkina Faso.

Amadou Rabihou

Amadou Dangadji Rabihou (born 2 December 1984 in Douala) is a Cameroonian footballer currently playing for SV Waldhof Mannheim.

Black African Students Federation in France

The congress elected an Executive Committee, which included Solange Faladé (medical student from Dahomey) as President, Amadou-Mahtar M'bow (from Senegal) as General Secretary, N'ki Traoré (from Guinea, also the Secretary of the RDA Students Association) as Joint General Secretary and Abdou Moumouni (from Niger, also the editor of Les étudiants anti-colonialistes) as Treasurer.

David Papys M'Bodji

David Amadou "Papys" M'Bodji (born July 13, 1984 in Kaolack) is a Senagalese footballer who playing for US Créteil-Lusitanos.

Folila

A second album, featuring the same set of songs, was recorded in Amadou and Mariam's hometown of Bamako and featured a team of African artists.

Hama Amadou

A special congress of the MNSD-Nassara held in Zinder on 21 February 2009 elected Prime Minister Oumarou to succeed Amadou as MNSD President.

In early August 2008 Zinder and Tillaberi sections of the MNSD proposed that Amadou be removed as party President.

While Amadou was campaigning for the July 2004 municipal elections, the helicopter in which he was travelling reportedly crashed on July 14, 2004 at Magaria in eastern Niger.

Jean Tigana

Jean Amadou Tigana (born 23 June 1955 in Bamako, Mali, previously named French Sudan) is a former French international footballer, having played in midfield and managed professional football extensively throughout France, including 52 appearances and 1 goal for the France national football team during the 1980s.

Koumba

Tales of Amadou Koumba or Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba is a collection of tales from Senegal, transcribed by Birago Diop from the accounts of the griot Amadou, son of Kumba

Mouride

In 2004 Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour released his Grammy Award winning album Egypt, which documents his Mouride beliefs and retells the story of Amadou Bamba and the Mouridiya.

Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké

It has been reported that Serigne Saliou Mbacke personally chose his successor, and that the grandsons of Amadou Bamba (including Serigne Saliou Mbacke's son, Serigne Cheikh Saliou Mbacké) have all pledged their loyalty to the new caliph, and that Bara Mbacké was visited by both President Abdoulaye Wade and Senegalese opposition leaders within 48 hours of his uncle's death.

Shooting of Amadou Diallo

The piece "Amadou Diallo", included in the album Ethnic Stew and Brew by jazz trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr., was inspired by the shooting, ending with a rapid burst of notes replicating the 41 gunshots.


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