Koyaka

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The Koyaka are a Mandinka people from West Africa established in central Côte d'Ivoire, mainly around the town of Mankono, in the Béré region.

Ethnonymy[]

Depending on the sources and the context, there are several variants: Koyaa, Koyagakan, Koyaga, Koyakas, Koya, Koyara.^[1]

Language[]

Their language is Koyaka (or Koyaga), a Mande language whose number of speakers was estimated at 60,000 in 1999.^[2]

Notable people[]

• Ibrahim Coulibaly, Ivorian soldier who played a leading role in the 1999 putsch and the outbreak of the rebellion of September 2002 against the government of President Laurent Gbagbo.^[3]
• Hamed Bakayoko, born March 8, 1965 in Abidjan, was an Ivorian journalist and politician. A major player in the Ivorian political scene, he occupied various key ministries under Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara. He was appointed Minister of State, Minister of Defense in 2017 in addition to having been elected mayor of Abobo, the most populous municipality of Côte d'Ivoire, in 2018.
• , born October 31, 1953 in Séguéla, in the Worodougou region, is an Ivorian statesman. Member of the Séguéla constituency, Soumahoro has been president of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire since March 7, 2019. He is the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie (APF) since July 9, 2019.

References[]

Literature[]

Alain-Michel Boyer, Les Wan, Mona et Koyaka de Côte d'Ivoire : le sacré, le secret, Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller, Hazan, Paris, 2011, 175 p. (ISBN 978-2-754-1055-14)