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2 unusual facts about Bambara


Aguibou Koné

A former student leader, he announced that he would run for president to defend the colours of a political organisation called "to Yèlè" (this means "to open" in the national language Bambara).

Senna italica

In West African languages, this tree is called mbali or balibali in Bambara, and laïdur in Wolof.


All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

In one of the most significant sections of Traveling Shoes, Angelou recounts an encounter with a West African woman who recognizes her, on the basis of her appearance, as a member of the Bambara group of West Africa.

During one of her travels through West Africa, a woman identifies her as a member of the Bambara tribe based solely upon her appearance and behavior, which helps Angelou discover the similarities between her American traditions and those of her ancestors.

Boscia senegalensis

Other common names include: aizen (Mauritania), mukheit (Arabic), hanza (Hausa), bere (Bambara), ngigili (Fulani), and mandiarha (Berber).

Cassia sieberiana

The tree is named sindia in the Wolof language, and sinjan in Bambara language, which literally means "long breast," a reference to the shape of the seed pods.

Koidu Holdings

The Tonguma Project mining lease is located about 68 km south of Koidu, in the Lower Bambara Chiefdom, Kenema District, of the Eastern Province.

Marka people

The Bambara integrated Maraka communities into their state structure, and Maraka trading posts and plantations multiplied in the Segu based state and its Kaarta vassals in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Mohamed B. Daramy

Alhaji Mohamed B. Daramy (born 1955 in Panguma, Lower Bambara Chiefdom, Kenema District) is a Sierra Leonean politician.

Mopti Region

The region contains a number of ethnic groups including Bozo, Songhai, Dogon, Fulani and Bambara.

Nara Cercle

It covers some 30,000 km2, and is home to Bambara and Sarakole (Soninké) peoples, as well as semi-nomadic Maure and Fula peoples, engaged in farming and livestock raising.

Téréba Togola

Togola was born in Bougouni Cercle, Sikasso in 1948 to a Bambara village chief and one of his later wives who was thought to be barren; in the Bambara language, Téréba translates to "surprise" or "miraculous birth".

Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies

In one of the most significant sections of Traveling Shoes, Angelou recounted an encounter with a West African woman who recognized her, on the basis of her appearance, as a member of the Bambara group of West Africa.

Tinye So

In Bambara tradition, the dead are alleged to hold the truth.

Toni Cade Bambara

In 1970 she changed her name to include the name of a West African ethnic group, Bambara.

Vigna

—Bambara groundnut, Congo goober, hog-peanut, jugo bean, njugumawe (Swahili) (sometimes separated in Voandzeia)

Yaya Coulibaly

In 1980 he formed his own puppet company, the Sogolon Puppet Troupe, and has since become the leading custodian of the Bambara puppetry tradition, the oldest and richest of Africa’s surviving puppetry traditions.

Yeelen

Niamanto Sanogo plays Niankoro's father, who is tracking his son through the Bambara, Fulani and Dogon lands of West Africa using a magical wooden post to guide him.


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