Koyaka

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, is an Ivorian journalist and politician. A major player in the Ivorian political scene, he occupies various key ministries under Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara. He has been appointed Minister of State, Minister of Defense since 2017 and mayor of Abobo, the most populous municipality of Côte d'Ivoire since 2018.
  • Amadou Soumahoro, 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
  1. Source RAMEAU, BnF
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.
  3. http://www.slateafrique.com/1575/chefs-de-guerre-qui-ont-porte-ouattara-au-pouvoir

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)

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