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Yankasso
Yankasso is a village in the Safané Department of Mouhoun province of Burkina Faso. It was the site of a serious defeat of the French colonial forces in December 1915. Location Yankasso is just north of Safané and southeast of Dédougou. As of the 1996 census, the population of Yankasso was 2,012. Battle of 23 December 1915 In November 1915 there was a revolt in the Black Volta bend against the French. The administrator Jules Brévié arrived at the end of the month to review the situation. On 21 December 1915 a French column left Dédougou led by commandant Simonin. Yankasso was then a large Marka Marka may refer to: Places * Marka (river), Lower Saxony, Germany * Marka, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province * Marka, Malawi a town in Nsanje District * Marka district, Jordan * Marka refugee camp, a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan * ... village on the route leading south to Bouna. Simonin suffered a serious check at Yankasso on 23 December. Brévié was present at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safané Department
Safané is a department or commune of Mouhoun Province in western Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Safané. According to the 1996 census the department has a total population of 44,925. Towns and villages * Safané (7 502 inhabitants) (capital) * (374 inhabitants) * (1 184 inhabitants) * Ba ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Brévié
Joseph-Jules Brévié (12 March 1880 – 28 July 1964) was a French colonial administrator who became governor-general of French West Africa from 1930 to 1936, and then governor-general of French Indochina from 1937 to 1939. He promoted liberal and humanistic policies, and thought it important to have deep understanding of the local people and respect for their civilization. He saw the role of the administration as being the economic and human development of the people. During World War II (1939–1945) he was Minister of Overseas France and the Colonies from April 1942 to March 1943. As a result of his participation in the Vichy government he was deprived of his rank and pension after the war. Life Early years (1880–1930) Joseph-Jules Brévié was born on 12 March 1880 in Bagnères-de-Luchon, Haute-Garonne. He graduated from the École coloniale (Colonial School) and was appointed a trainee administrator in 1902. He served in the Finance department of the government general a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boucle Du Mouhoun Region
Boucle du Mouhoun is one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions. It was created on 2 July 2001 and had a population of 1,898,133 in 2019. It is the 4th most populous region in Burkina Faso, and contains 9.26% of all Burkinabé. The region's capital is Dédougou. Six provinces make up the Boucle du Mouhoun region— Balé, Banwa, Kossi, Mouhoun, Nayala, and Sourou. , the population of the region was 1,898,133 with 50.2% females. The population in the region was 9.26% of the total population of the country. The coverage of cereal need compared to the total production of the region was 187%. As of 2007, the literacy rate in the region was 23.2%, compared to a national average of 28.3%. Geography Most of Burkino Faso is a wide plateau formed by riverine systems and is called falaise de Banfora. There are three major rivers, the Red Volta, Black Volta and White Volta, which cuts through different valleys. The climate is generally hot, with unreliable rains across different s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouhoun Province
Mouhoun is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso. It is in the Boucle du Mouhoun region. The capital of Mouhoun is Dédougou. Education In 2011 the province had 210 primary schools and 34 secondary schools. Healthcare In 2011 the province had 27 health and social promotion centers (''Centres de santé et de promotion sociale''), 7 doctors and 151 nurses. Demographics Most people in the province live in rural areas; 260,295 Burkinabé live in the countryside with only 37,793 people residing in urban areas. There are 148,732 men living in Mouhoun Province and 149,356 women (2006 census). Departments Mouhoun is divided into 7 departments: See also *Regions of Burkina Faso *Provinces of Burkina Faso *Departments of Burkina Faso The provinces of Burkina Faso are divided into 351 departments (as of 2014 and since local elections of 2012), whose urbanized areas (cities, towns and villages) are grouped into the same commune (municipality) with the same name as the department ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the Local mean time, mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a consequence, it cannot be used to specify a particular time unless a context is given. The term 'GMT' is also used as Western European Time, one of the names for the time zone UTC+00:00 and, in UK law, is the basis for civil time in the United Kingdom. English speakers often use GMT as a synonym for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). For navigation, it is considered equivalent to UT1 (the modern form of mean solar time at 0° longitude); but this meaning can differ from UTC by up to 0.9s. The term GMT should thus not be used for purposes that require precision. Because of Earth's uneven angular velocity in its elliptical orbit and its axial tilt, noon (12:00:00) GMT is rarely the exact moment the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dédougou
Dédougou is a city located in western Burkina Faso. It is the capital city of Mouhoun Province and Boucle du Mouhoun Region. The main ethnic groups are the Marka and the Bwa. The population of Dédougou was 37,793 in 2006; 18,778 were male and 19,015 were female. It is the 10th largest city in Burkina Faso. Dédougou is also the location of the Festival International des Masques et des Arts (FESTIMA The Festival International des Masques et des Arts (International Festival of Masks and the Arts), or FESTIMA, is a cultural festival celebrating traditional African masks held in Dédougou, Burkina Faso. (in French) Founded to help preserve tra ...), a biennial international festival celebrating traditional cultural masks. References Populated places in the Boucle du Mouhoun Region {{Mouhoun-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Volta
The Black Volta or Mouhoun is a river that flows through Burkina Faso for approximately 1,352 km (840 mi) to the White Volta in Dagbon, Ghana, the upper end of Lake Volta. The source of the Black Volta is in the Cascades Region of Burkina Faso, close to Mount Tenakourou, the highest point of the country. Further downstream it forms part of the border between Ghana and Burkina Faso, and later between Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Within Ghana, it forms the border between the Savannah and the Bono regions. The Bui Dam The Bui Dam is a hydroelectric project in Ghana. It is built on the Black Volta river at the ''Bui Gorge'', at the southern end of Bui National Park. The project is a collaboration between the government of Ghana and Sino Hydro, a Chinese constru ..., a hydroelectric power plant, is built on the river, just south of the Bui National Park, which the river bisects. References Volta River Rivers of Ghana Lake Volta Rivers of Burkina Faso Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marka People
The Marka (also Marka Dafing, Meka, or Maraka) people are a Mande people of northwest Mali. They speak the Marka language, a Manding language. History Muslim merchant communities at the time of the Bambara Empire, the Maraka largely controlled the desert-side trade between the sahel communities and nomadic berber tribes who crossed the Sahara. The Bambara integrated Maraka communities into their state structure, and Maraka trading posts and plantations multiplied in the Segu based state and its Kaarta vassals in the 18th and early 19th centuries. When the pagan Bambara empire was defeated by the Maraka's fellow Muslim Umar Tall Hadji Oumarûl Foutiyou Tall (Umar ibn Sa'id al-Futi Tal, ar, حاج عمر بن سعيد طعل), ( – 1864 CE), born in Futa Tooro, present day Senegal, was a West African political leader, Islamic scholar, Tijani Sufi and Toucouleur ... in the 1850s, the Maraka's unique trade and landholdings concessions suffered damage from which they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
