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unusual facts about Bamako, Mali



7 Walkers

Kreutzmann had been featured as a special guest at several of Mali's concerts since 2008 and the two decided to form an official band together with multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard, best known for his work with Willie Nelson, and Reed Mathis, of Tea Leaf Green.

Abderrahmane Sissako

Abderrahmane Sissako (born October 13, 1961 in Kiffa, Mauritania) is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France.

1998 : La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) (35mm, 67 minutes), set on the last day of the millennium (commissioned for the 2000 Seen By... series featuring other directors such as Tsai Ming-liang and Laurent Cantet) and filmed in Sokolo, Mali, Sissako's father's village.

2006 : Bamako (115 minutes), images of Mali's capital: everyday lives, a trial implicating the International Monetary Fund and World Bank for global poverty, a film within a film starring Danny Glover.

Adreno

Mali series media co-processors formerly Falanx, now become ARM Norway

Air Burkina

Air Burkina SA is the national airline of Burkina Faso, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination, Bobo-Dioulasso, as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Ananda Vikatan

Cartoons and illustration also flourished with Artist Maya, 'Mali' Mahalingam, Madhan, Sridhar, Silpi, Thanu and Gopulu.

Balla Moussa Keïta

Keïta initially worked as a middleman trader, buying fish and rice from Mopti and Dioro and reselling them in Bamako.

Bani-Bangou

On 22 January, four foreign tourists were reported kidnapped in Mali, north of Bani-Bangou, while traveling by auto from a festival at Anderamboukané to the Malian town of Ménaka, and on to Gao.

Bank of Africa

The maiden bank of the BOA Group, BOA Mali, was established in late 1982, in Bamako, Mali, by local businesspeople.

Ben Zabo

Beyond his talents as a guitar player and singer, he specialized in the field of sound techniques, allowing him to be an assistant sound engineer at the studio Bogolan in Bamako (Tamikrest, Ali Farka Touré, Salif Keïta, Vieux Farka Touré) since 2007.

Besa Kavajë

The first match the football ever played took place in Mali i Robit, Golem against the Albanian-American Institute in a friendly.

Bongosso

Bongosso (or Bougounso) is a village and seat (chef-lieu) of the commune of Koromo in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali.

BXW

Bankagooma (ISO 639-3 code BXW), a language native to Mali.

Chenanisuchus

Chenanisuchus ("Chenane crocodile") is a genus of dyrosaurid crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Mali and the Late Palaeocene of Sidi Chenane in Morocco.

Cheonan Stadium

On 15 October 2013, the South Korea national football team used the stadium for the first time in the friendly match against Mali, which ended in a 3-1 victory for Korea.

Chiwara

Thus the Bougouni / Southern region style are an amalgam of several animal motifs combined in the same work, in an abstract style; the Bamako / Northern region style is usually of the horizontal style; the Segu/ Northern region style (the heartland of the Bambara Empire) matches the vertical style with the unique "cut out" triangular body motif of the males.

Copper metallurgy in Africa

In sub-Saharan West Africa there were only two known source of copper that were commercially viable Dkra near Nioro, Mali and Takedda in Azelik, Niger.

Demain à Nanguila

A portrait of Mali in the sixties by means of the nightlife in Bamako, the capital’s monuments, women bent under the weight of too many tasks, Nanguila Tomorrow is regarded as the first Malian film.

Edgard de Trentinian

Trentinian agreed that the colony would improve the road between Toukoto and Bamako at its own expense.

Empower Mali Foundation

The Empower Mali Foundation is a Utah-based charitable organisation that was created in February 2013 to assist rural communities in Mali, West Africa, in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy.

Gouina Falls

The Gouina Falls or Chutes de Gouina are on the Sénégal River in Mali between the towns of Bafoulabé (upstream) and Diamou (downstream) in the Kayes Region, where the river runs north from the Talari Gorges.

Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes

He founded the French forts at Kita (1881) and Bamako (1883), which became two of the key towns of French Soudan.

Islam in Mali

Extremist worshippers of Islam have been responsible for some reprehensible acts in Mali, most notably what has been nicknamed the Battle of Gao, in which an extremist Muslim group, Ansar Dine began to destroy various World Heritage Sites.

John Talbot Clifton

They turned back in Mali but in 1928 he died in the Canary Islands on the way home.

Jorge F. Ramos

Among former members of the "CRT Ile de France team" is Daba Modibo Keïta from Mali, a heavyweight world champion 2009 and 2007; the first African to become double Taekwondo World Champion.

Khost Province

Khostwal (clans: Lakkan, Tawizai, Sabari, Shamil, Matun, Mali, Mandozai, Khostwal, Mangal from Musa khil sub branch dominating two district up northwest of khowst and Ismail Khel)

Le Boulet

Note the appearance of Nicolas Anelka as a football player, Jamel Debbouze as a prison guard in Mali, and musicians Stomy Bugsy (former Ministère AMER) and Marco Prince (singer of the FFF) and comedian Omar Sy (the duo Omar et Fred) as killer brothers.

Mari Djata

Sundiata Keita (c. 1217 – c. 1255), also called Mari Djata I, founder of the Mali Empire

Mopti Region

Mount Hombori, the highest point in Mali at 1153 meters, is in the Mopti Region, near the city of the same name.

Moussa Konaté

Moussa Konaté (1951 – 30 November 2013) was a Malian writer who was born in Kita.

Nada Mali

Nada Mali (born 21 October 1979 in Borovnica) is a Slovenian slalom canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.

Niger Basin Authority

Nine nations which include part of the Niger Basin are members: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.

Police Beat

The story is narrated by Z in his native Wolof language (the language of Senegal and parts of Mali, the Gambia, Cote d'Ivoire, and Mauritania), though he makes the transition to English when interacting with those around him.

Rassemblement Démocratique Africain

When Houphouët-Boigny, Apithy, and d'Arboussier arrived on the morning of 18 October at the airport in Bamako (in a plane which was formerly the private plane of Hermann Göring and was provided by the communist party) they were greeted by a hostile Sissoko, worried the party would give support to other French Sudanese political leaders and weaken his leadership.

Right of asylum

The first list, enacted in July 2005, included as "safe countries" Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius Island, India, Senegal, Mongolia, Georgia, Ukraine, Bosnia and Croatia.

Robert O. Blake

During his 30-year career in United States Foreign service, Blake served as ambassador to Mali from December 10, 1970 until May 20, 1973 as a member of the Nixon administration, serving under U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Samatiguila

The French explorer René Caillié spent five days in Samatiguila in July 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present day Guinea, to Timbuktu in Mali.

Samir Amin

Subsequently Amin left Cairo, to become an adviser to the Ministry of Planning in Bamako (Mali) from 1960 to 1963.

Souleymane Dembélé

Souleymane Dembélé (born 3 September 1984) is a Malian football player, currently playing for Stade Malien.

Takedda

In 1285, a court slave freed by Mari Djata, the founder of the Mali Empire, who had also served as a general, usurped the throne of the Mali Empire.

Television in Mali

Television in Mali was introduced in 1983.

Termit Massif Reserve

WWF has classified this reserve as part of the larger ecoregion of the South Saharan Steppe and Woodlands ecoregion that includes a strip of desert land which extends from central Mauritania, Mali, southwestern Algeria, Niger, Chad, and across Sudan to the Red Sea, and borders southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.

The Young Girl

The Young Girl is a 1975 Mali film, directed by Souleymane Cissé.

Tondidarou

Tondidarou is a small town and megalithic archaeological site in the Niafunké Cercle, Timbuktu Region, Mali, northwest of Niafunké, about 150 kilometres south-west of Timbuktu.

Traditional African religion

These are some of the important centers of religious life: Nri-Igbo, the Point of Sangomar, Ile-Ife, Oyo, Dahomey, Benin City, Ouidah, Nsukka, Akan, Kanem-Bornu, Mali, and Igbo-Ukwu.

Universal Nut Sheller

In 2001 Jock Brandis traveled to Mali to fix a small village's water treatment system.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.

Waman Bapuji Metre

Born in a family of Mali community farmers of modest means in the village of Kalamb, now in Maharashtra state in India, Waman went to high school in the nearest town of Yavatmal, and was reputed to be the first one from his village to attend high school.

Yaya Coulibaly

Later he studied art at the Bamako National Institute of the Arts, and puppet theatre at the Institute International de la Marionette in France.


see also

African reference alphabet

The Niamey conference also built on work of a previous UNESCO-organized meeting on harmonization of transcriptions of African languages, that was held in Bamako, Mali in 1966.

Dolce Vita Africana

The filmmaker travels to Malick Sidibé's studio in Bamako, Mali, to witness the artist at work and meet many of the subjects of his earlier photographs, whose personal stories also tell the history of Mali.

Fathy El Shazly

Ambassador El Shazly joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 01 June 1965.His diplomatic career took El Shazly to postings in Egyptian Embassies at Bamako, Mali- Caracas, Venezuela- Stockholm, Sweden and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he acted as Egypt's alternate representative to the Organisation of African Unity and to the Economic Commission for Africa, the UN branch for Africa.

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit agricultural research organization headquartered in Patancheru (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India) with several regional centres (Niamey (Niger), Nairobi (Kenya)) and research stations Bamako (Mali), Bulawayo (Zimbabwe).

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.

Jean-Pierre Ricard

He spent one year of National Service of Cooperation in Bamako, Mali.

Plymouth-Banjul Challenge

Since 2005, the rally also has a group of cars continuing on to Bamako, Mali.