Minignan

Minignan
Town and commune
Minignan

Location in Côte d'Ivoire

Coordinates: 9°59′50″N 7°50′10″W / 9.99722°N 7.83611°WCoordinates: 9°59′50″N 7°50′10″W / 9.99722°N 7.83611°W
Country  Côte d'Ivoire
Region Denguélé
Department Minignan Department
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)

Minignan is a town and commune in Côte d'Ivoire.

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.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.