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Daouda
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Daouda is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Surname
- Given name
- Daouda Badarou (born 1929), Beninese politician
- Daouda Compaoré (born 1973), Burkinabé football player
- David Daouda Coulibaly (born 1978), Malian football player
- Daouda Diakité (born 1983), Burkinabé football goalkeeper
- Daouda Diémé (born 1989), Senegalese footballer
- Daouda Jabi (born 1981), Guinean footballer
- Daouda Kanté (born 1978), Malian football (soccer) defender
- Daouda Karaboué (born 1975), French handball player, Olympic gold medallist
- Daouda Marté, Nigerien politician
- Daouda Sow (boxer) (born 1983), amateur boxer from France
- Daouda Sow (politician) (1933–2009), Senegalese politician and legislator
- Daouda Malam Wanké (1946–2004), military and political leader in Niger
See also
Mandinka people
West African ethnic group
Not to be confused with the larger Mandé peoples or the unrelated Dinka people of Sudan.
Ethnic group
Mansa Musa's visit to Mecca in 1324 CE with large amounts of gold attracted Middle Eastern Muslims and Europeans to Mali. | |
| c. 11 million | |
| Guinea | 3,786,101 (29.4%) |
|---|---|
| Mali | 1,772,102 (8.8%) |
| Senegal | 900,617 (5.6%) |
| The Gambia | 700,568 (34.4%) |
| Ghana | 647,458 (2%) |
| Guinea-Bissau | 212,269 (14.7%) |
| Liberia | 166,849 (3.2%) |
| Sierra Leone | 160,080 (2.3%) |
| Sunni Islam (Almost entirely) | |
| Other Mandé peoples, especially the Bambara, Dioula, Yalunka, and Khassonké | |
The Mandinka or Malinke are a West Africanethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, The Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea. Numbering about 11 million, they are the largest subgroup of the Mandé peoples and one of the largest ethnolinguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the Mande language family, which are a lingua franca in much of West Africa. Virtually all of Mandinka people are adherent to Islam, mostly based on the Maliki jurisprudence. They are predominantly subsistence farmers and live in rural villages. Their largest urban center is Bamako, the capital of Mali.
The Mandinka are the descendants of the Mali Empire, which rose to power in the 13th century under the rule of king Sundiata Keita, who founded an empire that would go on to span a large part of West Africa. They migrated west from the Niger River in search of better agricultural lands and more opportunities for conquest. Nowadays, the Mandinka inhabit the West Sudanian savanna region extending from The Gambia and the Casamance region New releases from Ernesto djédjé on Deezer Most popular albums from Ernesto djédjé Find artists similar to Ernesto djédjé Playlists & music by Ernesto djédjé Listen to Ernesto djédjé on Deezer Ernest Djédjé Blé, known as Ernesto Djédjé, singer, poet, dancer, arranger and guitarist, was born in 1947 in Bétés country, in the village of Tahiraguhé, Côte d'Ivoire. Creator of the ziglibithy musical and dance style, he is considered one of the pioneers of zouglou and coupé-décalé. Neglected by his father, a Senegalese businessman, he was raised by his mother's family. At the age of ten, he learned tohourou, a traditional rhythm from Bété country, which formed the basis of the first poems he wrote. He went on to learn guitar, and in 1963 formed a band with his friend Mamadou Kanté. Two years later, the two musicians joined conductor Amédée Pierre's Ivoiro-Star Band. In 1968, he decided to move to France. There he met Manu Dibango, whom he recruited for the arrangements of his first album, Anowa, in 1970, which blended soul, traditional music and rhythm'n'blues. The following year, he teamed up with the Reeba orchestra to create the album N'wawuile/N'koiyeme . In 1973, he went on to record Mamadou Coulibaly, then Zokou Gbeuly . He finally returned home that year with the intention of modernizing his country's music by incorporating elements of disco and Congolese rumba. This desire for openness materialized on the album Aguissè in 1975. During a trip to Nigeria, he discovered the music of Fela Kuti, which was a revelation for him insofar as it achieved the crossbreeding he was aiming for. The man nicknamed "the King" gradually perfected ziglibithy, a blend of disco and Bété dance. With producer Raimsi Gbadassi, he spent six months in the studio perfecting the 33-turn Zibote, which contains Listen to all of Ernesto djédjé's tracks on Deezer
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