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7 unusual facts about Mande


Benoît Chomel de Jarnieu

Benoît Chomel de Jarnieu (born on 6 October 1955 in Saint-Mandé) is a French admiral, currently major général of the Navy (n°2 of the Navy).

Bernard Frize

Bernard Frize (born 1954, Saint-Mandé, France) is a French painter who works in a variety of materials and utilizes a multitude of techniques.

Charles Berling

Charles Berling is a French actor, director, scenario writer and producer born on April 30, 1958 in Saint-Mandé in Val de Marne (France).

French Consulate General, San Francisco

Born in Saint-Mandé 1972, Romain Serman is an alumnus of Centre universitaire d’études politiques of Nancy and l’Institut d’études politiques of Paris before moving on to the École nationale d'administration.

Jean-Paul Delahaye

Jean-Paul Delahaye (born June 29, 1952 in Saint-Mandé Seine) is a French computer scientist and mathematician.

Pierre Jolivet

Pierre Jolivet (born 9 October 1952, Saint-Mandé, France) is a French director, actor and script-writer.

Vincennes Synagogue

In 1901, the Jewish Community of Paris decided to establish a community at Saint-Mandé, encompassing Jews from Vincennes and surrounding districts.


Bainuk people

In modern times the Bambe have often become absorbed into the Mande or Jola cultures.

Barhoue

the mande of Barhoue, in the north of Saint-Palais, by analogy with the former, the original name being *Barrhurte (Barhourt, 1316).

Bondoukou

Apart from Diola, Mande, and Akan peoples, the Department is home to a patchwork of ethinc groups including the Nafaanra, Koulango, and Lobi.

Boubacar Traoré

He had taught himself to play guitar and developed a unique style that blended American Blues music, Arab music, and pentatonic structures found in West Africa's Mande cultural region.

Chopteeth

Chopteeth vocalists sing in eight different languages including English, Nigerian Pidgin, Swahili, Wolof, Mande, Twi, Taita, and French.

Mande languages

In 1901 Maurice Delafosse made a distinction of two groups in his Essai de manuel pratique de la langue mandé ou mandingue.

Music of the Gambia

The region of Brikama has produced some famous musicians, including Foday Musa Suso, who founded the Mandingo Griot Society in New York City in the 1970s, bringing Mande music to the New York avant-garde scene and collaborating with Bill Laswell, Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet.

N'Ko alphabet

N'Ko came first into use in Kankan, Guinea, as a Maninka alphabet and was disseminated from there into other Mande-speaking parts of West Africa.

Rail Band

From early on the band featured electric guitar, electric organ, saxophone, horns, and a western drum kit alongside Mande music using kora, balafon, Ngoni, talking drums, Islamic-style, Mande hunter co-fraternity song, and Griot praise-singing vocals .

Sayouba Mandé

Sayouba Mandé (born 15 June 1993) is an Ivorian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Norwegian First Division side Stabæk.

Songhay languages

Diedrich Hermann Westermann, a missionary and linguist, hesitated between assigning it to Gur or considering it an isolate, and Maurice Delafosse grouped it with Mande.

Soumia

Soumia Bahri or just Soumia (born August 27, 1977, in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne) is a French Zouk singer.

Yagbum

Founded by the Ngbanya clan of Mande horsemen (c. 1600), Yagbum became the capital of their new Gonja kingdom.

Yaya Dissa

Born in Nioro, Dissa began playing youth football for local side AS Mandé.


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