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THE GENERAL WHO WAS OUT OF NIGERIA WHEN HIS GOVERNMENT WAS TOPPLED THE GENERAL WHO WAS OUT OF NIGERIA WHEN HIS GOVERNMENT WAS TOPPLED For almost two years… Nigeria had a man who seemed almost impossible to challenge. His name was Major General Tunde Idiagbon. He wasn’t Nigeria’s Head of State. But inside the BuhariContinue reading “THE GENERAL WHO WAS OUT OF NIGERIA WHEN HIS GOVERNMENT WAS TOPPLED”

DIOMANDÉ • JOMANDÉ • DJOMANDÉ • JOMANNI DIOMANDÉ • JOMANDÉ • DJOMANDÉ • JOMANNI THE CAMARA LINEAGE OF DIOMAN From Siby to the Forests of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone & Liberia The history of the Diomandé begins not with a separate people, but with a branch of the ancient Camara lineage of Mandé. AmongContinue reading “DIOMANDÉ • JOMANDÉ • DJOMANDÉ • JOMANNI”

SANKO / SONKO / SANKOH SANKO / SONKO / SANKOH A Historical Reconstruction of a Mande Lineage Across the Western Sudan, Kaabu, Senegambia, Guinea and Sierra Leone For generations, surnames such as Sanko, Sonko and Sankoh have appeared across different parts of West Africa. Today, they are sometimes classified according to the language or ethnicityContinue reading “SANKO / SONKO / SANKOH”