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École Normale Supérieure Of Bamako
École Normale Supérieure (ENSUP; alternate, National Superior School of Mali) is a public school of higher education in Bamako, Mali. Notable alumni * Berthé Aïssata Bengaly, Malian politician * Mamadou Diawara (ethnologist), Mamadou Diawara, ethnologist * Tiébilé Dramé, Malian politician * Alpha Oumar Konaré, President of Mali * Moussa Konaté (writer), Moussa Konaté, Malian writer * Assane Kouyaté, Malian film director * Yeah Samake, Yeah Samaké, candidate in the 2012 Malian presidential election * Téréba Togola, Malian archaeologist * Dandara Touré, Malian politician References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ecole Normale Superieure Of Bamako Education in Mali Educational organisations based in Mali Buildings and structures in Bamako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamako
Bamako is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern part of the country. Bamako is the nation's administrative center. The city proper is a Cercles of Mali, cercle in its own right. Bamako's Inland port, river port is located in nearby Koulikoro, along with a major regional trade and conference center. Bamako is the seventh-largest West Africa, West African urban center after Lagos, Abidjan, Kano (city), Kano, Ibadan, Dakar, and Accra. Locally manufactured goods include textiles, processed meat, and metal goods as well as mining. Commercial fishing occurs on the Niger River. In recent years, Bamako has seen significant urban development, with the construction of modern buildings, shopping malls, and infrastructure projects aimed at improving the quality of life for its residents. The city is home to many notable ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east by Niger, to the northwest by Mauritania, to the south by Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, and to the west by Guinea and Senegal. The population of Mali is about 23.29 million, 47.19% of which are estimated to be under the age of 15 in 2024. Its Capital city, capital and largest city is Bamako. The country has 13 official languages, of which Bambara language, Bambara is the most commonly spoken. The sovereign state's northern borders reach deep into the middle of the Sahara, Sahara Desert. The country's southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, is in the Sudanian savanna and has the Niger River, Niger and Senegal River, Senegal rivers running through it. The country's economy centres on agriculture and mining with its most promine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthé Aïssata Bengaly
Berthé Aïssata Bengaly (20 May 1957 – 31 May 2024) was a Malian politician and nutrition researcher. She served as minister for the promotion of women, children, and the family from 2002 to 2005, and as minister of the craft industry and tourism from 2013 to 2015. Biography Berthé Aïssata Bengaly was born in Koutiala, Mali, in 1957. After getting her bachelor's degree from the Lycée Notre-Dame du Niger in 1978, she graduated with a master's in chemistry from the École Normale Supérieure of Bamako in 1985. She later studied at Tulane University in the United States, where she obtained a master's in nutrition in 1995. From 1985 to 1986, Bengaly taught chemistry at the Lycée Notre-Dame du Niger in Bamako. She then worked as a researcher at the Institut d'Economie Rurale in Bamako from 1990 to 1995 and at Texas A&M University in the U.S. from 1996 to 2001. While at the Bamako institute, she notably developed Deliken, a sorghum-based nutritional biscuit, among other food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamadou Diawara (ethnologist)
Mamadou Diawara (born 1954 in Nioro du Sahel, Mali) is an ethnologist of Malian origin. He is a professor for ethnology at the institute for ethnologyMamadou Diawara , at the and deputy director of the in Frankfurt. He is also Director of Point Sud, a Research Center for Local Knowledge in |
Tiébilé Dramé
Tiébilé Dramé (born June 9, 1955"Présidentielle 2007: les 8 candidats" , ''L'Essor'', April 3, 2007 .) is a an who served in the as from 1991 to 1992. In the years since, he has remained active on the political scene, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Oumar Konaré
Alpha Oumar Konaré (born 2 February 1946) is a Malian politician, professor, historian and archaeologist, who served as President of Mali for two five-year terms from 1992 to 2002 and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 to 2008. Scholarly career Alpha Oumar Konaré, fourth son of a Fula homemaker, was born in Kayes, Mali, where he went to primary school. He went on to attend Bamako's ''Lycée Terrasson des Fougères'', the ''Collège de Maristes'' of Dakar, Senegal, the ''Collège Moderne'' of Kayes and, between 1962 and 1964, the ''École Normale Secondaire'' of Katibougou. He completed his advanced studies in history at the École Normale Supérieure of Bamako (1965–1969), at the University of Warsaw between 1971 and 1975 and, later in life, as a mid-career student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He began his professional career as a tutor in Kayes, then a lycée teacher at Markala and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moussa Konaté (writer)
Moussa Konaté (1951 – 30 November 2013) was a Malian writer who was born in Kita. He died in Limoges on 30 November 2013. A graduate in Humanities at Mali's Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako, he was a teacher for several years before turning to writing. He is the founder of '' Editions Le Figuier'' ('' Prickly Pear Publishing'') and the director of the ''Association Etonnants voyageurs Afrique'' (''Amazing Travellers Africa Association'') and, along with Michel Le Bris, was the Mali manager of the ', an international book fair in Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo language, Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany (administrative region), Brittany. The Fortification, walled city on the English Channel coast had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth .... Publications Novels *''L'Empreinte du renard'', Fayard, 2006. *''L’assassin du Banconi'', suivi de ''L’Honneur des Keita'', Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2002. *''Goorgi'', Editions L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assane Kouyaté
Assane Kouyaté (born 1954) is a Malian film director. Biography Assane Kouyaté was born in Bamako in 1954. In 1976 he got his degree in arts from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako, then went to the Moscow Institute of Cinema and Television, where he got his Diploma of Study of Cinema in 1989. In 1988, he worked with Russian director Sergei Salaviov as an assistant on the movie ''Pigeon''. He has collaborated with many directors worldwide, such as the Argentine Pablo César (''Aphrodite'', 1998). In 2002, he produced his first full-length film of his own: ''Kabala'', which tells the story of a Mandé village whose well dries up. ''Kabala'' won both the award for best screenplay and the Special Jury Prize at the pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television at Ouagadougou Ouagadougou or Wagadugu (, , , ) is the capital city of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation. It is also the List of cities in Burk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeah Samake
Niankoro Yéah Samaké () (born 27 February 1969) is a social entrepreneur and politician from Ouélessébougou, Mali. Samaké served as the Malian Ambassador to India. He was nominated by the Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in May 2015 and he assumed the post in 2015. Samaké is the executive director of the Empower Mali Foundation, former mayor of Ouélessébougou, Vice President of Mali's League of Mayors, and was a candidate in the 2013 Malian presidential election and 2018 elections. Samaké ran as a candidate in the Malian Presidential elections on 2 July 2018. Early life and education The 8th of 18 children born to Tiecourafing Samaké who had three wives in a Muslim family, Niankoro Yéah Samaké was born in the small village of Ouélessébougou, where he and his family lived in such deep poverty that Samaké recalls how his mother would tie the stomachs of Samaké and his siblings to ease their hunger. Despite their material circumstances, Yéah's father Tiecour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Téréba Togola
Téréba Togola (1948–2005) was a Malian Archaeology, archaeologist from the region of Sikasso. He participated in the country's first national inventory of its archaeological sites. Biography Togola was born in Bougouni Cercle, Sikasso in 1948 to a Bambara people, Bambara village chief and one of his later wives who was thought to be barren; in the Bambara language, Téréba translates to "surprise" or "miraculous birth". For some time he worked as a teacher in the Kayes Region. After studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako, he was introduced to archaeology by Michael Rainbault, Michel Raimbault in 1982. He was employed by the Institut des Sciences Humaines and began conducting archaeological expeditions to the Lakes Region. In 1984, he accompanied Rainbault in an expedition to Kawinza in the Timbuktu Region. In 1986 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to Rice University where he eventually completed an MA and PhD with Roderick and Susan McIntosh. Later he would conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandara Touré
Dandara Touré (born 1 October 1951) is a Malian politician. Touré has worked in education and women's rights for many years. She was appointed Minister for the Promotion of Women, Children and the Family in the cabinet of Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé on 16 February 2012. The 2012 Malian coup d'état meant that she was removed from office just 34 days later. Touré has since campaigned for democratic reforms in the country, opposing changes to the constitution which would have increased the powers of the president. Career Touré was born in Kita on 1 October 1951 in what was then known as French Sudan. She was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1973 and a master's degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako in 1977. Touré taught biology in Malian public schools before studying for a second master's degree in public health with a specialism in nutrition from Indiana University Bloomington. Upon her return to Mali she worked for the Directorate of Higher Education and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Mali
Education in Mali is considered a fundamental right of Malians. For most of Mali's history, the government split primary education into two cycles which allowed Malian students to take examinations to gain admission to secondary, tertiary, or higher education. Mali has recently seen large increases in school enrollment due to educational reforms. Mali has a long history about education, dating back to the years before 1960, when Mali was under the rule of France. After gaining independence, the Malian government made many efforts to incorporate more African and bilingual education into classrooms. Additionally, after the 1990s, when the Malian government shifted from a one party system to a democracy, the government created policies which focused on literacy and educational quality. In addition to primary public and private schools, other types of schools in Mali include vocational and technical institutions, religious schools, community schools, and schools for those with disabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
