Fouta Djallon

The Guinean advocacy organization, Pottal Fii Bhantal Fouta Djallon, has sponsored two rallies in front of the United Nations where protesters carried the homemade placards, some of which have gruesome photographs taken during the massacre in 2009.

This grass-roots democracy was something new to French Africa, and in the hidebound Moslem region of Fouta Djallon even some women got elected.

He speaks favourably of the Foulahs and the people of Fouta Djallon, whose rich and fertile country he crossed.

Woolli and the Gaboon were crossed, and the explorers penetrated into Bondou, which Mollien was to visit a few years later, a district inhabited by a people as fanatic and fierce as those of Fouta Djallon.

Leaving Bandeia, Mollien entered Fouta Djallon, and reached the sources of the Gambia and the Rio Grande, which are in close proximity.