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unusual facts about West African



Diddley bow

It was traditionally considered a starter or children's instrument in the Deep South, especially in the African American community and is rarely heard outside the rural South, but it may have been influenced to some degree by West African instruments.

Dried and salted cod

Thus it spread around the Atlantic and became a traditional ingredient not only in Northern European cuisine, but also in Mediterranean, West African, Caribbean, and Brazilian cuisines.

Octave Meynier

Only a few days later a mutiny among the troop brought to Voulet and Chanoine's death, and Meynier became mith Paul Joalland commander of the expedition, completing its main goal, the union of French West Africann possessions.


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1 Medical Battalion Group

The Natal Medical Corps was mobilised in 1914 and served in the South West African Campaign where they formed the 6th Stationary Hospital at Swakupmond and manned the hospital ship 'Ebani'.

AFC Ajax N.V.

That same year on 18 June 1999, AFC Ajax NV acquired 51% shares of Ashanti Gold SC, a West-African football club from Ghana, with Ashanti Goldfields Corporation retained 49% proprietorship of the club.

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.

Ana Paula dos Santos

Ana Paula Cristovão Lemos dos Santos (born October 17, 1963) is the wife of current President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos and First Lady of the South-West African state.

Banc d'Arguin National Park

By 1763 the British had expelled France from the West African coast, and France recovered control only when the Congress of Vienna in 1815 recognized French sovereignty over the coast of West Africa from Cap Blanc south to Senegal.

Ben Allison

From 1983-85, Allison studied West African, Haitian and Cuban drumming traditions with Richard Hill and attended the ACES Educational Center for the Arts (ECA), a performing arts school, and Wilbur Cross High School.

Berbice

Berbice Creole Dutch, a Dutch creole language based on the lexicon and grammar of the West African language Ijo, was spoken until well into the 20th century.

Brianna Goldberg

Although the topic had been widely researched in the United States already, no in-depth reporting had previously been done into musicians like Jayme Stone: a Juno award winning banjo player whose bluegrass and West African fusion album, Africa to Appalachia, launched in June 2008.

Calypsonian

Calypso music was developed in Trinidad in the 17th century from the West African Kaiso and canboulay music brought by African slaves imported to that Caribbean island to work on sugar plantations.

Christylez Bacon

Christylez Bacon (pronounced: chris-styles) is a Grammy Nominated Progressive Hip-Hop artist and multi-instrumentalist from Southeast, Washington, D.C. As a performer, Christylez multi-tasks between various instruments such as the West African djembe drum, acoustic guitar, and the human beat-box (oral percussion), all while continuing the oral tradition of storytelling through his lyrics.

Crowbar

Koevoet (which is Afrikaans and Dutch for crowbar), a South West African Police counterinsurgency unit

Debola Ogunseye

Ogunseye attended Olabisi Onabanjo University in his native Nigeria, and was part of the team which won the 2005 West African University Games and a silver medal in the Nigerian University Football League.

Dialium guineense

The velvet tamarind can be found in West African countries such as Ghana where it is known as Yoyi, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Nigeria where it is known as Awin in Yoruba, Icheku in Igbo and Tsamiyar kurm in Hausa.

Dundun

Dunun, dundun or doundoun, a family of West African bass drums

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.

Falaba

The British R.M.S. Falaba, a West African steamship, was hit and sunk by a U-boat torpedo in 1915.

Fort Huachuca

Capt. Amadou Sanogo, junta leader in the West African country of Mali, completed intelligence training at Fort Huachuca in 2008.

Garifuna

the Garifuna people, descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people

Going Ape

It follows the story of 50 Chimpanzees, 26 Gorillas, seven Baboons and four Mandrills who have been orphaned by the bush meat trade in the West African country of Cameroon showing the vital work of the Mefou National Park and the Limbe Wildlife Centre along with Ape Action Africa (formerly the Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund) and "In Defence of Animals - Africa", two charities that are dedicated to saving the primates in the region.

Green Actors of West Africa

The initial concept of Green Actors in West Africa was first discussed in September 2004 during a meeting of NC-IUCN’s West African partners in Aburi, Ghana.

Igbo people in Jamaica

Originating primarily from what was known as the Bight of Biafra on the West African coast, Igbo people were taken in relatively high numbers to Jamaica as slaves.

Joseph Henry Smith

Joseph Smith studied at the Achimota School in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana between 1959 and 1963 where he successfully completed the West African School Certificate.

Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom

A West African offshoot of the Followers of Set, the Damballans are centered in the area of Nigeria and Benin, with their founding temple in Oyo, the one-time capital of the old Yoruba Kingdom.

Last Flight to Abuja

The movie grossed ₦8,000,000 in its first week of release and went ahead to ₦24,000,000 topping the chat in west African cinemas and beating Hollywood blockbusters such as: Spider-man, Think Like a Man, The Avengers and Madagascar 3.

Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté

Since 1997, Madou has been playing lead kora with some of the most important West African singers and musicians, including Kandia Kouyaté, Baaba Maal, and Salif Keita, among others.

Mamady Keïta

Mamady Keïta (surname sometimes also spelled Keita; b. Balandougou, Siguiri Prefecture, Kankan Region, Guinea, August 1950) is a master drummer from the West African nation of Guinea.

Manimou Camara

Manimou Camara (born July 1978, Matam, Conakry Region, Guinea) is a master drummer and dancer from the West African nation of Guinea.

Massa Makan Diabaté

Born in 1938 in Kita, Massa Makan Diabaté was the descendant of a long line of West African poets (griots).

Michelson Museum of Art

The Ramona and Jay Ward Collection of African Masks is another permanent collection and includes masks of the Yoruba, Senufo, and other West African peoples.

Okey Ndibe

His poetry is published in New West African Poets, edited by the Gambian writer, Tijan Sallah.

Oladipo Diya

The head of the Military tribunal, General Victor Malu, the former commander of the West African regional peacekeeping force ECOMOG, responding to Lieutenant General Diya's defence that people at the very top framed him said it was not necessary to know who had initiated the conspiracy.

Pap Saine

He is the third West African to have won the title, following Kenneth Best (Liberia) and Freedom Neruda (Côte d'Ivoire).

Radio Salone

Now, Radio Salone, a product of an immensely storied West African band and their renowned Brooklyn producer, is set up to bring a new spin on an evolving group.

Raffia palm

The raffia palm is important in societies such as that of the Province of Bohol in the Philippines, Kuba of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nso of Cameroon, the Igbo and Ibibio/Annang of southestern, the Urhobo and Ijaw people of Niger delta Nigeria and the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria, among several other West African ethnic nations.

Senna italica

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

Song of Freedom

As in Sanders of the River, the film called for documentary scenes of West African traditional dances and ceremonies, but this time Robeson obtained a contract giving him final cut, so that the film’s message would not be changed behind the doors of the editing room.

The Funkees

They moved to London in 1973 and quickly gained prominence in the West African and West Indian music scene, before fragmenting four years later.

The Overloaded Ark

It is the chronicle of a six months collecting trip to the West African colony of British Cameroon - now Cameroon - (Dec 1947 - Aug 1948) - that Durrell made with the highly regarded aviculturist and ornithologist John Yealland.

Toni Cade Bambara

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

UBS Mayu

After working up, Fal served for a time in the North Atlantic, before moving to Freetown for service on the West African convoy route between Lagos, Takoradi and Freetown.

Wallace Johnson

I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson, Sierra Leonean and British West African workers' leader

West Africa Democracy Radio

WADR is a project of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) set up in 2003 to protect and defend the ideals of democratic and open societies by disseminating development information through a network of community radios in the West African sub-region.

West African catshark

The West African catshark, Scyliorhinus cervigoni, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found from the eastern Atlantic between latitudes 20° N and 17° S, at depths between 45 and 500 m.

Western Niger

In 1885, British claims to a West African sphere of influence received international recognition, and in the following year the Royal Niger Company was chartered under the leadership of Sir George Taubman Goldie.