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Kita, Mali
Kita is a town and Communes of Mali, urban commune in western Mali. The town is the capital of the Kita Cercle in the Kayes Region. It lies on the eastern slope of Mount Kita (Bambara: "Kita-kulu"), known for its caves and rock paintings. Today, the town is known for its music, its annual Roman Catholic pilgrimage and its role as a processing center for the surrounding cotton- and peanut-growing region. Kita lies on the Dakar-Niger Railway and is the largest transit hub between Bamako (112 miles) and Kayes (205 miles). In the 2018 census the urban commune had a population of 463,787. In November 1955, Kita became a commune of average exercise. On March 2, 1966, Kita became a commune of full exercise. The town grew in the 1990s around the cotton industry, but this has since declined. A fictionalized version of Kita features as the setting for Malian author Massa Makan Diabaté's "Kouta Trilogy" (Le lieutenant de Kouta, Le coiffeur de Kouta, and Le boucher de Kouta). History N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of Mali
A Commune (administrative division), commune is the third-level administrative unit in Mali. Mali is divided into ten Regions of Mali, regions and one capital district (Bamako). These subdivisions bear the name of their principal city. The regions are divided into 56 Cercles of Mali, cercles. The cercles and the district are divided into 703 communes, with 36 urban communes and 667 rural communes, while some larger cercles still contain Arrondissements of Mali, arrondissements above the commune level, these are organisational areas with no independent power or office. Rural communes are subdivided into villages, while urban communes are subdivided into ''quartier'' (wards or quarters). Communes usually bear the name of their principal town. The capital, Bamako, consists of six urban communes. There were initially 701 communes until Law ''No. 01-043'' of 7 June 2001 created two new rural communes in the desert region in the north east of the country: Alata, Mali, Alata, Ménaka Cerc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djelimady Tounkara
Djelimady Tounkara is a Malian musician and one of the foremost guitarists in Africa. Life and career Born in the culturally rich town of Kita, west of the Malian capital, Bamako, Djelimady grew up surrounded with traditional music played by members of his family, griots, musicians and historians by birth. Djelimady played djembe drum and ngoni, a banjo-like lute, as a boy. When he moved to Mali's capital, Bamako, during the 1960s, he had actually planned to work as a tailor. But music proved a stronger calling. He started playing guitar in a large, government-sponsored neighborhood band, Orchestre Misira. Voted the best guitarist in the band, Djelimady was selected to join the Orchestre National as rhythm guitarist, a great honor for the young player. All his adult life, Djelimady has worked to transform his ancestral traditions into dance pop. But at the same time, he has continued to work in more traditional contexts, backing the great griot singers of Mali on records, in conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 vedette malienne''. Kouyaté's dense, emotional, hypnotic manner of singing and her lyrical talents have earned huge acclaim in Mali, though she remained relatively little known outside Africa, due to extremely limited availability of her recordings. Her home town of Kita is known for love songs, which form a large part of Kouyaté's repertoire. She also sings praise songs. Background Kouyaté's father, a balafon (West African xylophone) player himself, did not want her to go into music and wanted her to rely on a solid education instead of the unpredictability of a musical career. Secretly, she learned from her mother and other family members how to sing and began performing occasionally at private gatherings. As a young girl, she be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamadou Diabate
Mamadou is a common given name in West Africa among predominantly Muslim ethnic groups such as the Mandé and Wolof people. It is a variant of the Arabic name Muhammad. In Francophone countries, the name is sometimes uses as a slur towards people of African descent. Academics *Mamadou Diouf (historian), Senegalese professor of West African history at Columbia University Arts and music * Mamadou Diabaté (born 1975), Malian ''kora'' player * Mamadou Diop (musician) (born 1954), Senegalese rhythm guitarist and band leader * Mamadou Konte (died 2007), Senegalese music producer * Mamadou "Jimi" Mbaye (1957-2025), Senegalese guitarist Government * Mamadou (mansa), ruler of the Mali Empire * Mamadou Blaise Sangaré (born 1954), Malian politician, president of the Social Democratic Convention *Mamadou Boye Bah (1930-2009), Guinean economist and politician * Mamadou Kamara Dékamo (born 1949), Congo-Brazzaville politician and diplomat * Mamadou Dembelé (1934-2016), Malian politician *Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afro Pop Music
The afro is a hair style created by combing out natural growth of afro-textured hair, or specifically styled with chemical curling products by individuals with naturally curly or straight hair.Garland, Phyl"Is The Afro On Its Way Out?" '' Ebony'', February 1973. Retrieved February 20, 2010. Sherrow, Victoria, ''Encyclopedia of hair: a cultural history'' Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, pp. 21–23. Retrieved February 20, 2010. The hairstyle can be created by combing the hair away from the scalp, dispersing a distinctive curl pattern, and forming the hair into a rounded shape, much like a cloud or puff ball.Mercer, Kobena [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheick Hamala Diabate
Cheick is a male Malian given name (the Senegalese version is Cheikh). Notable people with the name include: * Cheick Sidia Baldé (born 1983), Guinean footballer *Cheick Bathily (born 1982), Malian footballer * Cheick Fantamady Camara (1960–2017), Guinean film director * Cheick Cissé (born 1987), Malian footballer *Cheick Sallah Cissé (born 1993), Ivorian taekwondo athlete * Cheick Comara (born 1993), Ivorian footballer * Cheick Condé (born 2000), Guinean footballer *Cheick Hussein Dabo (born 1994), Ivorian footballer * Cheick Oumar Dabo (born 1981), Malian footballer * Cheick Diabaté (footballer, born 1988), Malian international footballer, full name Cheick Tidiane Diabaté * Cheick Diabate (footballer, born 2002), English footballer * Cheick Hamala Diabaté, Malian musician * Cheick Omar Diabate, Nigerian football manager *Cheick Diallo (born 1996), Malian basketball player * Cheick Fantamady Diarra (born 1992), Malian footballer *Cheick Modibo Diarra (born 1952), Mali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griot
A griot (; ; Manding languages, Manding: or (in N'Ko script, N'Ko: , or in French spelling); also spelt Djali; or / ; ) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. Griots are masters of communicating stories and history orally, which is an African tradition. Instead of writing history books, List of oral repositories, oral historians tell stories of the past that they have memorized. Sometimes there are families of historians, and the oral histories are passed down from one generation to the next. Telling a story out loud allows the speaker to use poetic and musical conventions that entertain an audience. This has contributed to many oral histories surviving for hundreds of years without being written down. Through their storytelling, griots preserve and pass on the values of a tribe or people, such as the Senegalese, who are Muslims. The Wolof people in Senegal, many of whom cannot read or write, depend on griots to learn abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bako Dagnon
Bako Dagnon (1948 or 1953 – 7 July 2015) was a Malian griot singer. She is considered to be a popular representative of Mandinka culture and has released several records in local languages. Early life Bako Dagnon was born in the little village of Golobladji, around 20 kilometers away from Kita in a family of griots and n'goni players. The origins of her family can be traced back to the time of Sundiata Keita. In her birth village, she learned the songs from Ségou Ségou (; , ) is a town and an Communes of Mali, urban commune in south-central Mali that lies northeast of Bamako on the right bank of the River Niger. The town is the capital of the Ségou Cercle and the Ségou Region. With 130,690 inhabitant ... from her grandmother and those from Guinea from her mother, while her grandfather who had fought with Samori Ture taught her battlefields songs. Her mother died when Bako Dagnon was seven years old, her father sent her into the care of a childless wife of a griot in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekou Koita
Sekou, also spelled Sékou or Seku, is a given name from the Fula language. It is equivalent to the Arabic ''Sheikh''. People with this name include: People * Sekou (singer), British singer Given name * Seku Amadu (1776–1845), also known as Sékou Amadou or Sheikh Amadu, founder of the Massina Empire in Mali * Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922–1984), first president of Guinea (1958–1984) * Sekou Sundiata (1948–2007), African-American poet and performer at The New School in New York City * Sekou Conneh (born 1960), Liberian politician and former rebel leader * Sékou Dramé (born 1973), Guinean football player * Sékou Berthé (born 1977), Malian football defender who last played for Persepolis in Iran Pro League * Sékou Fofana (born 1980), Malian football defender who plays for FC Banants in Armenian Premier League * Sékou Tidiane Souaré (born 1983), Ivorian football player, who currently plays for B36 Tórshavn * Sekou Baradji (born 1984), French football midfielder * Sék ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wet Season
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs. Generally, the season lasts at least one month. The term ''green season'' is also sometimes used as a euphemism by tourist authorities. Areas with wet seasons are dispersed across portions of the tropics and subtropics. Under the Köppen climate classification, for tropical climates, a wet season month is defined as a month where average precipitation is or more. In contrast to areas with savanna climates and monsoon regimes, Mediterranean climates have wet winters and dry summers. Dry and rainy months are characteristic of tropical seasonal forests: in contrast to tropical rainforests, which do not have dry or wet seasons, since their rainfall is equally distributed throughout the year.Elisabeth M. Benders-Hyde (2003)World Climates.Blue Planet Biomes. Retrieved on 2008-12-27. Some areas with pronounced rainy seasons will see a break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
