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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... This is a timeline of History of Guinea. Each article deals with events in Guinea in a given year. Twentieth century
The modern state of Guinea did not come into existence until 1958, but the history of the area stretches back well before European colonization.Its current boundaries were determined during the colonial period by the Berlin Conference (1884–1885) and the French, who ruled Guinea until 1958.
African American, American groups of West Africa (Ivorian, Malian, Senegalese, Sierra Leonean, Liberian, etc.), French Guinean Americans are an ethnic group of Americans of Guinean descent. According to estimates by 2000 US Census, there were 3,016 people who identified Guinean as one of their two top ancestry identities.
Many hoped that Guinea's landmark 2010 election would finally bring the West African country a democratic leader after decades of corrupt dictatorship. Instead President Alpha Conde decided to ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city ... 2009 – 28 September: 2009 Guinea protest and ... " – via Digital Public Library of America ...
Guinea is named after the Guinea region which lies along the Gulf of Guinea.It stretches north through the forested tropical regions and ends at the Sahel.The English term Guinea comes directly from the Portuguese word Guiné which emerged in the mid-15th century to refer to the lands inhabited by the Guineus, a generic term for the African peoples south of the Senegal River, in contrast to ...
History of Guinea. Early history – see history of West Africa. Sahelian kingdoms – the area which is now Guinea lay on the fringes of these Kingdoms; Imamate of Futa Jallon – West African theocratic state based in the Futa Jallon highlands of modern Guinea. The state was founded around 1727 by a Fulani jihad and became part of the French ...
French Guinea (French: Guinée française) was a French colonial possession in West Africa. Its borders, while changed over time, were in 1958 those of the current independent nation of Guinea . French Guinea was established by France in 1891, within the same borders as its previous colony known as Rivières du Sud (1882–1891).