Bouramayah

Bouramayah (Bouramaya) is a village in the Tanéné sub-prefecture, Dubréka Prefecture of Guinea. It is the home village of the family of the former Guinean president General Lansana Conté.^[1]

History edit

Jean-Marie Bayol and William Fernandez in Bouramayah

The town became the seat of power of the Fernandez Dynasty from the 1780s. In 1885 King William Fernandez received Jean-Marie Bayol, the French lieutenant-governor of Senegal, in charge of the Rivières du Sud region, on an official visit to the town.

References edit

^ "Bouramayah: Alpha Condé va se recueillir sur la tombe de Lansana Conté" (in French; "Bouramayah: Alpha Condé will say prayers at Lansana Conté grave") by G. Togba, Aujourd'hui en Guinée, 5 August 2010 Archived 4 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 21 May 2011

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[1] "Bouramayah: Alpha Condé va se recueillir sur la tombe de Lansana Conté" (in French; "Bouramayah: Alpha Condé will say prayers at Lansana Conté grave") by G. Togba, Aujourd'hui en Guinée, 5 August 2010 Archived 4 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 21 May 2011

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