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Bá Thước
Ba, Bâ, and Bah are potentially related West African surnames, usually of Fula origin. In the Fula culture of Mali and Senegal, the surname Diakité is considered equivalent. Ba is also a family name in modern China. Ba * Adame Ba Konaré (born 1947), a Malian Historian and former first lady * Amadou Ba (other), several people * Amadou Dia Ba (born 1958), a Senegalese athlete * Demba Ba (born 1985), a Senegalese footballer * Georges Ba (born 1979), an Ivorian footballer * Ibrahim Ba (born 1973), a French footballer * Ibrahima Ba (footballer born 1984), a Senegalese footballer * Inday Ba (1972–2005), a Swedish–British actress * Ismail Ba (born 1974), a Senegalese footballer * Issa Ba (born 1981), a Senegalese footballer * Papa Malick Ba (born 1980), a Senegalese footballer * Pape Samba Ba (born 1982), a Senegalese footballer * Sadio Ba (b. 1973), a Belgian footballer * Teresa Nzola Meso Ba (born 1983), an Angolan–French triple jumper Bâ * Alioune Bâ (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Africa
West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations geoscheme for Africa#Western Africa, United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territories, United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R. Masson, Catherine Anne Pattillo, "Monetary union in West Africa (ECOWAS): is it desirable and how could it be achieved?" (Introduction). International Monetary Fund, 2001. The population of West Africa is estimated at around million people as of , and at 381,981,000 as of 2017, of which 189,672,000 were female and 192,309,000 male.United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2017). World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision, custom data acquired via webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Nzola Meso Ba
Teresa Nzola Meso Ba (born 30 November 1983, in Luanda) is an Angolan-French triple jumper. Biography She formerly represented Angola, but switched to France in 2003. Before this she set an Angolan triple jump record of 13.49 metres, which still stands. Nzola Meso Ba finished ninth at the 2006 European Championships. At the 2007 European Indoor Championships, she finished third in a new French indoor record and personal best jump of 14.49 metres. Her per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Bah Kuhnke
Alice Bah Kuhnke ( Bah; 21 December 1971) is a Swedish politician for the Green Party who is currently a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Previously she served as the Minister of Culture and Democracy From October 2014 to January 2019. Before going into politics, she was a television presenter. She also helped found the think tank Sektor3. She was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden. Biography Bah grew up in Horda in Jönköping, Sweden, the daughter of a Gambian father and a Swedish mother. She attended a track-and-field-oriented high school in Växjö and was one of the country's best female sprinters in the late 1980s, with the 200-meter dash her speciality. Television career Bah's television career began with SVT's " Disney Club" in 1992. Between 1998 and 1999, she had her own talk show at TV4 and many other television assignments, including the current-event show "Kalla fakta". On 16 January 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algassime Bah
Algassime Bah (born 12 November 2002) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cypriot First Division club APOEL and the Guinea national team. Club career In 2019, Bah was sent on loan to Russian lower league side Vista. In 2021, he signed for Olympiacos in the Greek top flight after receiving interest from Spanish La Liga club Atlético Madrid, AA Gent in Belgium, Italian Serie A team Milan, and France. On 19 September 2021, he debuted for Olympiacos during a 0–0 draw with Atromitos. On 10 August 2024 Bah joined Cypriot First Division club APOEL, signing a three-year deal. International career In June 2023, Bah was included in the final squad of the Guinean under-23 national team for the 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations, hosted in Morocco, where the ''Syli'' finished in fourth place. Career statistics Honours Individual * Super League Greece 2 Young Player of the Season: 2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Bah
Alexander Hartmann Bah (born 9 December 1997) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Primeira Liga club Benfica and the Denmark national team. After coming through Næsby's youth academy, he was promoted to the first team in 2016, and later represented fellow Danish side HB Køge and spent two years with SønderjyskE in Danish Superliga. In January 2021, Bah joined Slavia Prague, where he won the Czech First League and Czech Cup in 2021 and was named the Czech First League's Defender of the Season in 2022, and then transferred to Benfica for €8 million. After representing Denmark at various youth levels, Bah was called up to the full international team for the first time in November 2020. He scored on his international debut against Sweden, and went on to represent the side at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2024. Early life Bah was born in Årslev on the island of Funen, Denmark, and is of Danish and Gambian descent. He later attended efter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aïcha Bah Diallo
Aïcha Bah Diallo is a Guinean education minister and women's rights activist, who served as Minister of Education from 1989 to 1996, and was responsible for implementing major reforms improving education among young girls. Early life and education A paternal great-granddaughter of Thiero Aliou Bhoubha Ndian, Diallo has said of her early life and development as a leader: "I was empowered as a leader from a very young age, and I kept on going. I was the first girl born after 3 boys, and my parents would say to me, "You are a leader. You have to be good at school, not second, but always be first, because we know that you can do it". " Diallo graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Penn State University and received a postgraduate diploma in biochemistry from Guinea's University of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Career During her terms as Minister of Education from 1989 to 1996, the number of girls enrolled in schools ion Guinea increased from 113,000 to 233,000. In 1992, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Bakar Bah
Abu Bakar Bah (born October 10, 1978) is a Sierra Leonean former professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Honours Club honors ;Al Ahed *Lebanese FA Cup (2): 2003–04, 2004–05 *Lebanese Federation Cup The Lebanese Federation Cup () is an annual cup competition in men's domestic football in Lebanon. Organised by the Lebanese Football Association (LFA), it serves as the domestic league cup to the Lebanese Premier League and is contested before ... (2): 2004, 2006 References External links * * * 1978 births Living people People from Kenema Men's association football midfielders Sierra Leonean men's footballers Sierra Leonean expatriate men's footballers Al Ahli SC Saida players Tersana SC players Al Ittihad Alexandria Club players Al Ahed FC players Racing Club Beirut players PSAP Sigli players Lebanese Premier League players Egyptian Premier League players Liga 1 (Indonesia) players Indonesian Premier Division players Expatriate men's football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdallah Bah
Abdallah Bah (born 30 November 1975) is a retired Guinean footballer. He played as a goalkeeper. During his professional career, Bah played in France, Spain, England and the United States. Internationally, he was part of the Guinean 2004 African Cup of Nations team, who finished second in their group in the first round of competition, before losing in the quarterfinals to Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b .... External links * * * 1975 births Living people Footballers from Dakar Naturalized citizens of Guinea Guinean men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Ligue 1 players OGC Nice players CP Mérida footballers Leyton Orient F.C. players D.C. United players Guinea men's international footballers 1998 African Cup of Nations play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youssouf Sambo Bâ
Youssouf Sambo Bâ (born May 10, 1942 in Boborgou, Niger) is a Burkinabé politician and retired teacher. He is the President of the Party for Democracy and Socialism. Bâ was headmaster of ''Collège d'Enseignement Général'' in Bobo-Dioulasso from 1974 to 1977. On January 7, 1983 Bâ was named Cabinet Director of the Ministry of National Education, Arts and Culture, by the ruling CSP junta. Sambo Bâ was elected to the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ... in the May 2007 parliamentary election as a candidate on the PDS national list. He was one of only two PDS candidates to win a seat. References Members of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso Party for Democracy and Socialism politicians Living people 1942 births Immigrants to Burkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariama Bâ
Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. Born in Dakar, Senegal, Dakar, Senegal, she was raised a Muslim. Her frustration with the fate of African women is expressed in her first novel, ''So Long a Letter, Une si longue lettre'' (1979; translated into English as ''So Long a Letter''). In this semi-autobiographical epistolary novel, epistolary work, Bâ depicts the sorrow and resignation of a woman who must share the mourning for her late husband with his second, younger wife. This short book was awarded the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1980 in literature, 1980. Biography Bâ was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1929, into an educated and well-to-do Senegalese family of Lebu people, Lebu ethnicity. Her mother, Fatou Kiné Gaye, died when Mariama was 4. Her father, Amadou Bâ, founded the separatist African Autonomist Movement in 1946. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maba Diakhou Bâ
Mamadu Diakhou Bâ (1809 – July 1867) was a Muslim leader in Senegambia (West Africa) during the 19th century. He was a disciple of the Tijaniyya Sufi brotherhood and became the Almami of Saloum. Maba Diakhou Bâ combined political and religious goals in an attempt to reform or overthrow previous animist monarchies, and resist French encroachment. He is a part of a tradition of Fulani jihad leaders who revolutionized many West African states during the 19th century. In the 19th century, he became a prominent Muslim cleric and slave trader and pillager of non-Muslim states.Klein, Martin (1968). "Islam and Imperialism in Senegal Sine-Saloum, 1847–1914." Edinburgh University Press, p. 73, Spelling variations *In Serer: Ma Ba Jaxu and Ama Ba Jaxu (or Amat Jaxu Ba) *Maba Jaxu *Maba Jahou Bah *Ma Ba Diakhu *Ma Ba Diakho Ba *Mabba Jaxu Ba Early life A descendant of the Fulani Denianke Dynasty, Amath Ba was born in 1809 in the region of Rip, also known as Badibou. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Amadou Hampâté Bâ (, 1900/1901 – 15 May 1991) was a Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist. He was an influential figure in the twentieth-century African literature and cultural heritage. A champion of Africa's oral tradition and traditional knowledge, he is remembered for the saying: "whenever an old man dies, it is as though a library were burning down" ("''un vieillard qui meurt, c'est une bibliothèque qui brûle''"). Biography Amadou Hampâté Bâ was born to an aristocratic Fula family in Bandiagara, the largest city in Dogon territory, and the capital of the precolonial Masina Empire. At the time of his birth, the area was known as French Sudan as part of the colonial French West Africa, which was formally established a few years before his birth. After his father's death, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, Tidjani Amadou Ali Thiam of the Toucouleur ethnic group. He first attended a Qur'anic school run by Tierno Bokar, a dignitary of the Tija ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
