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Kouroussa

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concessions near the town. The Kouroussa area also has a long history as a center of small scale gold mining, which continues in so called "Artisanal Mining" Recent criticism has surfaced around the working conditions, pay, and the widespread use of child labour in these small gold mines, and the
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population of the area migrated from the west when the Fula people conquered the Fouta Djallon in the 13th - 16th centuries. With the collapse of the empire, southern Manden confederations and states continued to exist, including in the area around Kouroussa. In the 17th century the Fama Da Monzon
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Courouassa is a neat village, surrounded by a mud wall, from ten to twelve feet high and from eight to ten inches thick. It contains between four and five hundred inhabitants. ... the inhabitants are called DhialonkĂ©s , and are chiefly idolaters. They do not travel, but occupy themselves
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In 2001, Kouroussa was one of several places which was particularly hard hit by flooding, and became a center for thousands of internally displaced people from the surrounding area. In 2005, Kouroussa was rocked by major protests against the government, particularly aimed at Kouroussa
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Note: Jansen argues for a reappraisal of Mandé dating which pushes remnants of the Mali Empire into the 19th century. The more traditional dates are accepted in Charlotte A Quinn. Mandingo kingdoms of the Senegambia: Traditionalism, Islam, and European expansion. Longman (1972).
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religion. Kouroussa and the surrounding region is the centre of the Hamana-Malinke Mande sub-group -- "Hamana" being the name for the region, while the Malinke are the major Mande speaking ethnic group of the upper Niger valley. There are also sizable minority communities of
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Niger â€“ Conakry rail line runs 588 km to the capital of Guinea, with a branch of 74 kilometers running from Kouroussa to Kankan. It was built by the French, using African labor, in the first two decades of the 20th century.
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Gatelet, p. 494. For the colonial era wild rubber collections, see: Emily Lynn Osborn. 'Rubber Fever', Commerce And French Colonial Rule In Upper Guinée, 1890–1913. The Journal of African History (2004), 45:
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With an estimated population of just over 10,000, Kouroussa functions more as a services and transport center for the surrounding agricultural region than as a metropolitan center in its own right.
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to make it an important crossroads for people and goods moving between the Guinea coast and the states of the western Soudan and Niger River valley. The town and surrounding area is a center of
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method which middlemen, many based in Kouroussa, purchase and transport gold. Gold collected in Kouroussa is sold on—with almost no regulation or oversight—to larger merchant houses in
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Kouroussa and surrounding towns maintain the pre-colonial Mande ceremonial kingship of Hamana, with the most recent holder of the office King of Kouroussa King Sayon Keita I.
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appeared, sending his well armed forces against Kouroussa, its neighbors, and the French alike, while the Futa Jallon state raided the area periodically. The French officer
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With its position near the upstream limit of navigation on the Niger River, Kouroussa is an important center of transport and trade. The Guinea Railway crosses the
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mining has also been proposed in the Kouroussa area, with both Dredging of Heavy Mineral Sands from rivers and streams and dry pit mines proposed as of 2007.
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to the south. From here French forces raided areas controlled by Samori, even launching raids from here into the British territory of
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Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828 (Volume 1)
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The Savanna climate in the region around Kouroussa support a wide range of subsistence and cash crop farming, producing rice,
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to conquer both the Mandé states surrounding Kouroussa to the northwest and the Bambara to the northeast. To the south, the
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to sign a protectorate, passed through Kouroussa in the 1880s, and at the beginning of the 1890s, French military under
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who was accused of embezzling local mining revenue. The town was reported at the time to be a center of the opposition
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Jan Jansen. THE REPRESENTATION OF STATUS IN MANDE: DID THE MALIEMPIRE STILL EXIST IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY?
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peaceably in the cultivation of their little fields, which are fertilised by the inundations of the river.
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In the late 19th century French forces appeared in the region just to the north, establishing bases at
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Major mining companies are engaged in ongoing exploration drilling in a series of government granted
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established garrison posts at Kankan and Kouroussa, commanded from a larger post just downstream at
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at this town, where there is also a river port. The town also lies at a junction in Guinea's
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The French, after annexing the Futa Jallon in the 1890s, added the region to the colony of
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Hamana-Malinke are especially known for their unique musical traditions, especially their
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William Basil Morgan, John Charles Pugh. West Africa. Methuen, 1969. pp. 271, 587, 593.
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made Kouroussa the southern reach of his state. By the 18th century the Fula Muslim
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G. D. Killam, Ruth Rowe. The Companion to African Literatures. Dover (2000). p. 57
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By the arrival of Europeans, Kouroussa was a major trade stop between the
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drumming traditions, with a number of well known drum masters—including
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The first known European visitor to the town was the French explorer
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New International Yearbook: A Compendium of the World's Progress
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RenĂ© CailliĂ©, l'Africain : une vie d'explorateur, 1799-1838
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listing for FAO Rice Agriculture development centre, Kouroussa
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provided pressure from the south and west, while the growing
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The majority of the surrounding population comes from the
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culture, and is known for its Djembe drumming tradition.
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Kouroussa market square, seen in a French image from 1911
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The Sanimuso Foundation, "Artisanal Mining Association"
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The Sanimuso Foundation, "Artisanal Mining Association"
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Histoire de la conquête du Soudan français (1878-1899)
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Sub-prefecture
Kouroussa market square, seen in a French image from 1911
Kouroussa is located in Guinea
10°39′00″N 09°53′00″W / 10.65000°N 9.88333°W / 10.65000; -9.88333
Guinea
Region
Kankan Region
Kouroussa Prefecture
Time zone
UTC0
N’ko
Guinea
Kouroussa Prefecture
Mali Empire
Niger River
Malinke
Manden
Mali Empire
Kankan
Jallonke
Bambara Empire
Imamate of Futa Jallon
Timbo
Kong state
CĂ´te d'Ivoire
René Caillié
Djenné
Timbuktu
Niger River
Kindia

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