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Jatta
Jatta or Jåttå is a surname and clan name. The surname originated from Prince Karapha Yalli Jatta son of Mansa Ali Djata Keita son of Mari Djata I establisher of the Mali Empire. Notable people with the surname include: *Antonio Jatta (1852–1912), Italian politician and lichenologist *Assan Jatta (born 1984), Gambian football striker *Bakery Jatta (born 1998), Gambian footballer *Barbara Jatta (born 1962), Italian art historian *Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta, Jola scholar and musician from Mandinary, Gambia *Fabakary Jatta, member of the Pan-African Parliament from the Gambia *Ousman Rambo Jatta, the Councilor of Old Bakau in Gambia *Paul Jatta (born 1991), Gambian footballer *Sidia Jatta, Gambian politician, academic, and writer *Jatta (novel), fantasy novel for teens with the heroine Princess Jatta 'whose life is not a fairytale' See also * Jåttå Station, railway station at Jåttå in Stavanger, Norway Stavanger (, , US usually , ) is a city and municipality in Norway. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakery Jatta
Bakery Jatta (born 6 June 1998) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for 2. Bundesliga club Hamburger SV. International career Jatta was called up by Gambia national team in October 2019. He pulled out of the squad in November 2019, saying he wished to concentrate on his club career. Personal life and identity dispute Jatta is said to have come to Germany in 2015 as a refugee. However, in August 2019, suspicions in the news arose over his identity as according to a German press article by ''Sport Bild'' his real name was speculated to be Bakery Daffeh and his age was speculated to be older. Initially, neither the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees nor the local Hamburg authorities were able to confirm nor deny Jatta's identity. Subsequent news stories, however, have cast doubts on the ''Sport Bild'' report. The ''Hamburger Abendblatt'', on 29 August, reports on a visit from a ''Bild'' reporter in Gambia who as it appears may have pretended to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Jatta
Barbara Jatta (born 6 October 1962) is an Italian art historian who has been the director of the Vatican Museums since June 2016. Early life and education Jatta has joked that she was born among the smell of solvents. Her mother was a painter and restorer, and her sister a restorer. She often visited her grandparents on Via Giulia in Rome, or at Fregene on the outskirts of the city, where her grandmother, Assia Busiri Vici, a portrait painter, would paint her. Her grandfather Andrea was an architect. Despite her family background, she only determined on a career in art history when she was living in an artists commune in Rome and went with one of the artists to an art history lesson. She studied literature at the University of Rome (''Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"''), completing her thesis, ''The History of Drawing, Engraving and Graphics'', in 1986. She later went on to earn degrees in Archive Administration and Art History. After her studies in Italy, she studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatta (novel)
''Jatta'' is a fantasy novel by Australian author and illustrator Jenny Hale. Set in an alternate world, its heroine Jatta discovers in the days before her fourteenth birthday that she is a werewolf In folklore, a werewolf (), or occasionally lycanthrope (; ; uk, Вовкулака, Vovkulaka), is an individual that can shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature), either purposely or .... As the wolf inside Jatta grows, it continues to morph. When it impinges on her waking hours, Jatta realises her personality will disintegrate. Eventually none of her gentle humanity will be left. The novel deals with themes of forgiveness and how we are sculpted by family and culture. It investigates societies by contrasting Jatta's pacifist, compassionate and vulnerable ‘Alteeda’ with the brutal, militarily successful Kingdom of Dartith. Once in Dartithan custody, both Jatta and her brother Arthmael are faced with impossible deci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatta (film)
''Jatta'' ( kn, ಜಟ್ಟ) is a 2013 Indian Kannada-language thriller drama film directed by B. M. Giriraj. It stars Kishore and Sukrutha Wagle in lead roles. Kishore plays the role of a forest guard whose wife elopes with a tourist and he becomes involved in a clash of beliefs and ideologies with a feminist who he chains in his isolated forest home. The film won critical acclaim for its story and the portrayal of characters from critics and filmgoers. The film is an inspiration from Hollywood movie "Black Snake Moan" (2006). Cast * Kishore as Jatta * Sukrutha Wagle as Sagarika * Paavana Gowda as Belli * Prem Kumar as Bheemakumar * B. Suresha * Vinod Kumbar as Rajesh Production In 2010, B. M. Giriraj made an experimental film ''Naviladavaru'' with a budget of 35,000. Being recognized for this, he was offered to direct ''Advaita'' by film producer N. M. Suresh in the same year, a film that did not release. He was then offered ''Jatta'' by producer N. S. Rajkumar. Soundtr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Jatta
Antonio Jatta (25 June 1852 – 4 August 1912) was an Italian politician and lichenologist. After completing his secondary studies at the Classical Lyceum Umberto I in Naples, at the age of 22 he graduated with honours in natural history at the University of Naples and in agriculture at the Royal Higher School of Agriculture in Portici. He was a wealthy landowner who published ''Flora Italica Cryptogama'' in several volumes from 1900 to 1909. Jatta identified the lichens that were given in the 1915 list of the lichens of the Maltese Islands, compiled by the botanists Carlo Pietro Stefano Sommier and Alfredo Caruana Gatto. A 1962 publication by William Culberson noted that most of his subgenus, subgeneric names from the ''Flora Italica Cryptogama'' had not been included in Alexander Zahlbruckner's influential 10-volume work ''Catalog Lichenum Universalis'' (1922–1940), nor in Elke Mackenzie's (then known as Ivan Lamb) 1963 followup work ''Index Nominum Lichenum''. Culberson catalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ousman Rambo Jatta
Ousman Rambo Jatta (born 13 June 1969), known as Rambo, is a Gambian politician. He is currently a councillor in Old Bakau and deputy leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC). Political career Jatta was a member of the United Democratic Party (UDP). In 2006, he protested against suspected misconduct in the Gambian presidential election. He claimed that a group of people travelling in army vehicles on their way to vote were, instead of Gambian soldiers, non-Gambians dressed in military uniforms. As a result of this allegation, Jatta was arrested on 23 September. He was defended by UDP party leader and human rights lawyer Ousainou Darboe. Jatta was held in prison for a year. According to Amnesty International, he was held under unspecified national security charges. He was released on 19 October 2007 and told Reuters that he was happy to be back with his family and thanked God for his release. In 2008, Jatta was elected as a councillor in Old B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kombo
Kombo was a kingdom and later a chieftaincy in Gambia during the colonial period. Kombo was part of the Mali Empire and gained independence after its fall, and was then ruled by the Sambou Bainunka clan. Mansa Karapha Yalli Jatta became the first King of Kombo, after seeking help from the then independent Kaabu Empire to establish the Kingdom of Kombo, he married the daughter of the Bainuk Queen Wullending Jasseh of Sanyang who sits at Gunjur and took her to Busumbala. Mansa Karapha Yalli Jatta was from the Jatta (Lion) clan who claim ancestry from Sundiata Keita the first Emperor of the Mali Empire. Kombo was ruled by two families, the Jatta (Djatta) and Bojang (Bodian) clans, when one clan becomes Mansa, the other clan gets to chose the crown prince from their own clan and vice versa. From 1840-1855 Mansa Suling Jatta was the King of Kombo, he was killed in the Soninke-Marabout war, and most of the Jatta clan moved to other regions. History There are relatively few men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidia Jatta
Sidia Sana Jatta (born 1945) is a The Gambia, Gambian politician, academic, and writer. Early life and education A Mandinka people, Mandinka, Jatta was born in Sutukoba, Wuli District. He was educated locally and at Nungua Secondary School, near Accra, Ghana from 1961 to 1963, before returning to The Gambia to attend Yundum College from 1964 to 1966. After working as a school teacher in various primary and secondary schools until 1972, he enrolled at the University of Grenoble from 1973 to 1978, obtaining undergraduate and master's degrees in linguistics. He returned to France again to further his study in 1983. Career After returning to The Gambia, Jatta worked for the Curriculum Development Centre from 1978 to 1983, later as senior curriculum development officer, and was also a research fellow at the International African Institute, London from 1980 to 1982. He resigned from the government in 1986 in protest to the performance of the ruling People's Progressive Party (Gambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta
Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta is a Jola scholar and musician from Mandinary, Gambia, who pioneered the research and documentation of the ''akonting'', a Jola folk lute, as well as the related Manjago folk lute, the buchundu, in the mid-1980s. Prior to Jatta's work, these instruments were largely unknown outside the rural villages of the Senegambia region of West Africa. Contribution to knowledge of West African music In the 1960s, scholars and writers began to seriously examine the traditional music of West Africa in their search for the roots of the blues, jazz, and the other music forms that had emerged in the African diaspora. However, in this quest there was very little study and documentation of West African stringed instruments done other than in the overall context of general musical and cultural traditions. For the most part, the only stringed instruments to receive specific attention were those of the griots, such as their plucked lutes (e.g. the Mande '' ngoni'', the Wol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabakary Jatta
Fabakary Tombong Jatta (born 16 November 1952) is a Gambian politician who has served as Speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and the leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) since 2017. Early life and career Jatta was born on 16 November 1952 in Albreda, Gambia. He was educated at Armitage High School and Yundum College (1970–1973). He later worked as a teacher in Bansang from 1973 to 1977 and at Crab Island Junior Secondary School, Banjul from 1977 to 1979, before joining Nigeria Airways, where he became the district accountant. Political career During the Gambian First Republic (1970–1974), he supported the National Convention Party and was taken to court for allegedly registering to vote in two different constituencies, which makes him look antipathy to the People's Progressive Party. He joined the APRC party on its establishment in 1996. Jatta was elected as the National Assembly Member (NAM) for Serekunda East in the 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jatta
Paul Jatta (born 21 February 1991) is a Gambian retired footballer. He played as a midfielder. Jatta presented Gambia at 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada and was the captain of the U-17 from Gambia The Gambia,, ff, Gammbi, ar, غامبيا officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. It is the smallest country within mainland AfricaHoare, Ben. (2002) ''The Kingfisher A-Z Encyclopedia'', Kingfisher Publicatio .... References External links Brøndby IF profile 1991 births Living people Gambian footballers The Gambia youth international footballers Brøndby IF players Association football midfielders Danish Superliga players Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark {{Gambia-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assan Jatta
Assan Jatta (born 26 June 1984) is a Gambian football striker. He currently plays for Steve Biko FC in Gambia. He scored twice in seven league appearances in a Mariekerke shirt since switching to the club from local side Steve Biko in the opening stage of the Belgian third tier campaign in 2011 and has been on the national team of Gambia. In July and August 2008 he joined FC Dallas on a 10-day trial. In July 2009 he joined Columbus Crew SC on trial, but was not signed. Jatta previously played for Lierse in the Belgian First Division. In the 2005-2006 season he played in Gambia for club Steve Biko, and then joined Lierse S.K. In Belgian First Division, he was loaned out to Verbroedering Geel-Meerhout. In 2010, he went back home in Gambia to play for Ron Mango FC Ron is a shortening of the name Ronald. Ron or RON may also refer to: Arts and media * Big Ron (''EastEnders''), a TV character * Ron (''King of Fighters''), a video game character *Ron Douglas, the protagonist in '' Luc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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