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Guinea
; ...Beyla, Boffa, Boke, Cap Verga, Conakry, COTE D'IVOIRE, Dabola, Dalaba, Dinguiraye, Dubreka, Faranah, Forecariah, Fouta Djallon, GUINEA-BISSAU, Gaoual, Gueckedou, Kamsar, Kankan, Kindia, Kissidougou, Kogon R., Konkoure R., Koundara, Kouroussa...
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National Day of the Republic of Guinea.(Opinion & Editorial)
; ...number of ethnic groups make up the population of Guinea, but the largest group is the Fulani, who are concentrated in Fouta Djallon and comprise about 35 percent of the total population. The official language is French, but there are eight national...
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AFRICA'S WATER CRISIS:AMINA SALUM ALI
; ...water resources management. The Fouta Djallon Highland Integrated Development project, located in Fouta Djallon, Republic of Guinea, comprises...within the catchments area of the Fouta Djallon. May of the big rivers in that...
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National Day of The Republic of Guinea.(Opinion/Editorial)
; ...number of ethnic groups make up the population of Guinea, but the largest group is the Fulani who are concentrated in Fouta Djallon and comprise about 35% of the total population. The official language is French, but there are eight national languages...
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Crossing oceans: Kadiatou Diallo explains how she reclaimed her son's life by talking about her own.(Intelligence City Lit)(My Heart Will Cross this Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou)(Book Review)
; ...her son Amadou a day earlier in the family's ancestral home in Hollande Bourou, a village high up in the lush green Fouta Djallon Mountains. Though still wracked with grief, she had taken the time to prepare a meal for me before I returned to New...
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The Baga and their art. (art of a people living in part of Guinea, Museum of African Art, New York, NY; adapted from 'Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention')(Under the Hammer)(Cover Story)
; ...expressed by the oral tradition on the migration from the Fouta Djallon--the evolution of the Baga from a mountain people to a lowland...try to maintain Baga society as it had been, staying in the Fouta to fight the Muslims, eventually arrived on the same stage...
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Identify matters. (people retain identity in the face of the majority culture's attempts at total assimilation)(Editorial)
; ...film's credits roll. Such its not the case. Whatever the Baga were centuries ago in their homeland in the hills of the Fouta Djallon is a story of the 16th century. Even what they were in the 1950s--when an Islamic jihad seized and burned their religious...
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PROSPECTS FOR PEACE IN GUINEA:LANSINE KABA
; ...corrupt and mixed Islam`` associated with the government and against the ``evils of modernity``, as the unrest in Fouta Djallon in the 1990s indicated. Moreover, the influx of refugees from war-torn neighboring countries, including a sizable number...
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Exhibit at BMA tells the story of the Baga people: A trip to West
; ...where they came from although they can't prove it. According to their tradition, they once lived in a region called the Fouta Djallon further into Africa's interior, but migrated to the coast where they now live. When they came to the coast, they brought...
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