Minignan

Minignan
Maninian
Town, sub-prefecture, and commune
Minignan

Location in Ivory Coast

Coordinates: CI 10°0′N 7°50′W / 10.000°N 7.833°W / 10.000; -7.833Coordinates: CI 10°0′N 7°50′W / 10.000°N 7.833°W / 10.000; -7.833
Country  Ivory Coast
District Denguélé
Region Folon
Department Minignan
Population (2014)[1]
 • Total 14,521
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)

Minignan (also spelled Maninian) is a town in north-western Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Minignan Department. It is also a commune and the seat of Folon Region in Denguélé District.

History

The French explorer René Caillié stopped at Minignan in 1827 on his journey from Boké, in present-day Guinea, to Timbuktu in Mali. He was travelling with a caravan transporting kola nuts to Djenné. He described the village in his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo.

We halted towards two o'clock at Manegnan [Minignan], a village inhabited by Bambaras; it contains about eight or nine hundred inhabitants; the natives call this part of the country Foulou, and like the Wassoulos they speak the Mandingo language; I did not perceive that they had any particular dialect. They are idolaters, or rather, they are without any religion; their food and clothes are like those of the inhabitants of Wassoulo; and they are equally dirty.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Côte d'Ivoire". geohive.com. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Caillié, René (1830). Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828 (Volume 1). London: Colburn & Bentley. pp. 307–308.
  3. ↑ Quella-Villéger, Alain (2012). René Caillié, l'Africain : une vie d'explorateur, 1799-1838 (in French). Anglet, France: Aubéron. p. 76. ISBN 978-2-84498-137-0.


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