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    the Jola Karon, Jola Mlomp, Jola Elinnkin, Jola Caginol, Jola Huluf, Jola Jamat, Jola Joheyt, Jola Bayot, Jola Brin, Jola Seleky, Jola Kabrouse, Jola Jiwat...
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  • Jolas may refer to: Members of the Jola people of West Africa Betsy Jolas (born 1926), Franco–American composer Eugene Jolas (1894–1952), American translator...
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  • Look up Jola in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jola may refer to: Jola people, an ethnic group of West Africa Jola languages, a dialect continuum spoken...
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    of Fulani and Serer" The Serers also maintain the same bond with the Jola people with whom they have an ancient relationship. In the Serer ethnic group...
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  • indigenous peoples, in the contemporary global sense of the term. For example, in West Africa, the Dogon people of Mali and Burkina Faso, the Jola people of Guinea-Bissau...
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    highest at over 96%, followed by FGM among the women of the Jola people at 91%, and Fula people at 88%. Among the Mandinka women of some other countries...
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    The Wolof people (UK: /ˈwoʊlɒf/) are a West African ethnic group found in northwestern Senegal, the Gambia, and southwestern coastal Mauritania. In Senegal...
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  • Jola (French: Diola; Jola: Joola), also called Jola-Fonyi (French: Diola-Fogny) and Kujamataak, is a language spoken by 475,000 people in the Casamance...
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    ([ə'kɔntiŋ], or ekonting in French transliteration) is the folk lute of the Jola people, found in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. It is a...
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    The Toucouleur people or Tukulor people (Arabic: توكولور, French: Toucouleur), also called Haalpulaar (Ajami: هَالْݒُلَارْ‎, Adlam: 𞤖𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤨𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪)...
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    sacred to followers of Awasena (a traditional African religion) among the Jola people, and is a heritage variety in the United States. Crossbreeding between...
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    town of Tiin. The Serer people to which they are a sub-group of are the oldest inhabitants of Senegambia along with the Jola people. Their ancestors were...
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  • Yola (section People)
    a dialect of Middle English, historically of County Wexford, Ireland Jola people, of Africa Yola (album), a 2001 album by Eleanor McEvoy YOLA, Youth Orchestra...
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    Serer 17%, Mandinka 5.6%, Jola 4.5%, Soninke 1.4%, Other 8.3% (2017) French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Hassaniya Arabic, Serer, Jola, Mandinka, Soninke, Arabic...
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    candidates are the ancestors of the Jola people or the Wolof, but some researchers believe that the Serer people are the builders. This hypothesis comes...
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  • Jambooñ and Agaire (two sisters and early ancestors of the Serer and Jola people respectively whose pirogue broke at the Point of Sangomar separating...
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  • melody. The banjo is a direct descendant of the Akonting created by the Jola people, found in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. Hence, the...
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    Fula, Wolof, Jola/Karoninka, Serahule / Jahanka, Serers, Manjago, Bambara, Aku Marabou, Bainunka and others, such as Tukulor. The Krio people, locally known...
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    of 18,239 (2023 census) consisting of the Serer, Wolof, Fula, Bambara and Jola) ethnic groups. The rural towns of Thiomby, le Dya, and Ndiebel are located...
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    Yahya Jammeh (category Jola people)
    born in Kanilai, in West Coast Region of the Gambia, and is a Muslim of the Jola ethnic group. He attended Gambia High School in Banjul from 1978 to 1983...
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  • John George Eugène Jolas (October 26, 1894 – May 26, 1952) was a writer, translator and literary critic. John George Eugène Jolas was born October 26,...
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    Youssou N'Dour (category Living people)
    a typical Serer surname. See - Mwakikagile, Godfrey, The Gambia and Its People: Ethnic Identities and Cultural Integration in Africa, New Africa Press...
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    Kumpo (category Jola religion)
    figures (along with Samay, and the Niasse) in the mythology of the Diola people in the Casamance (Senegal) and in Gambia. Multiple times in the course of...
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    (notably Macky Sall), and the old pleasant cousinship between the Serer and Jola people by liaising with the King of Oussouye (Maan Sibiloumbaye Diédhiou) to...
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  • for trade in West Africa. The Dioula language and people are distinct from the Diola (Jola) people of Guinea-Bissau and Casamance. Alpha Blondy Amadou...
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    with her husband Eugene Jolas. Jolas was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but became closely associated with European culture. Jolas and her husband had two...
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    Bernardo Vieira until he was overthrown in 1999. It relies mainly on the Jola people. Its armed wing was formed in 1985 and is called Atika (Diola for "the...
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    Chadwick Boseman (category American people of Bissau-Guinean descent)
    some of his ancestors were Jola people from Guinea-Bissau, Krio people and Limba people from Sierra Leone, and Yoruba people from Nigeria. Boseman graduated...
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    through the interaction of Berbers from the Sahara and "Negro agricultural peoples" who were "essentially Serer". The Serer language and religion (A ƭat Roog)...
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    were the second largest African group, followed by the Jola as well as the Fula. The Serer people make up 3.5% of the country's demographics. Islamic schools...
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