Kouyaté is a surname common in Senegal, Guinea, Mali. Notable people with the surname include:
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Adama Kouyaté, Malian photographer
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Bassekou Kouyate
Bassekou Kouyaté (born 1966) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba.
He was born into the Kouyate family in Garana, Barouéli Cercle, 60 kilometres from Ségou, in 1966.Frank Bessem's Musiques d'AfriqueBassekou Kouyate/ref> At th ...
, Malian musician
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Boubakar Kouyaté, Malian footballer
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Cheikhou Kouyaté, Senegalese footballer
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Kandia Kouyaté
Kandia Kouyaté (also known as Kandja Kouyaté, born in 1959 in Kita, Mali) is a Malian ''jelimuso'' (a female griot) and kora player; she has earned the prestigious title of ''ngara'', and is sometimes called ''La dangereuse'' and ''La grande ve ...
, Malian jelimuso (a female
griot
A griot (; ; Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: , ''djeli'' or ''djéli'' in French spelling); Serer: kevel or kewel / okawul; Wolof: gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician.
The griot is a repos ...
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kora player
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Lansana Kouyaté
Lansana Kouyaté (born 15 July 1950) is a Guinean politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Guinea from 2007 to 2008. Previously he was Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) from 1997 to 2002 ...
, Prime Minister of Guinea from 2007 to 2008
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Mamadou Kouyaté, Malian footballer
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Moussa Kouyate, Malian kora player
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Moustapha Kouyaté, Guinean footballer
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Soriba Kouyaté, Senegalese kora player
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Sotigui Kouyaté
Sotigui Kouyaté (19 July 1936 – 17 April 2010) was one of the first Malian, Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyaté, of the storyteller Hassane Kassi Kouyaté and of the actor Mabô Kouyaté
and was a member of th ...
, Malian-Burkinabé actor and footballer
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