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	Jola people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jola (Diola, in French transliteration) are an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.
		The Jolas are found in great numbers on the Atlantic coast between the southern banks of the Gambia River, the Cassamance region of Senegal (Southern Senegal), and the northern part of Guinea-Bissau.
		Unfortunately people who don't understand how Jolas pray and relate to their God think that the Jolas have no God but spirits, because they offer sacrifices to the Bakin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diola_people (1276 words)

	People
		The river basin was a focal point for migrating groups of people escaping the turmoil of western Sudanic wars dating from the 12th century.
		The contemporary Malinke are an agricultural people, cultivating such staples as millet and sorghum and tending small herds of cattle, kept primarily for trade, bride-price payments, and prestige.
		The Wolof, also spelled Ouolof, are a Muslim people of Senegal and The Gambia speaking a language of the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family.
	www.africanculture.dk /gambia/enc_people.htm (1027 words)

	G.R. No. L-69674
		Ruben Arayesa and Agapito Diola left the cadaver of Judy Bulan in the scene of the crime and went to Buracan, Dimasalang, Masbate to inform Pat.
		Abigan contends that the prosecution's eyewitness, Agapito Diola the victim's fishing companion did not see the actual stabbing nor was his testimony corroborated by the post-mortem examination report.
		Besides, Diola had reason to be at the scene of the crime that fatal evening of April 10, 1982; he and Arayesa were the companions of the deceased Bulan in fishing when the appellant stabbed him.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1986/sep1986/gr_69674_1986.html (1291 words)

	People vs Biong : 136137 : December 11, 2001 : J. Vitug : Third Division
		Antonio Diola advanced the defense of alibi and introduced a succession of witnesses in an attempt to destroy the credibility of private complainant.
		Accused Antonio Diola testified that on the evening of 01 June 1996, at seven o'clock in the evening, he was preparing the sound system owned by his older brother, Matranillo Diola, at the dance hall, which was just a few meters away from his house.
		While appellant Diola concededly did not actually penetrate private complainant, his act of holding a knife against her to effectively silence any protest, was an overt act in furtherance and facilitation of the conspiracy.
	www.supremecourt.gov.ph /jurisprudence/2001/dec2001/136137.htm (4245 words)

	FWB, December 1993
		Although all the peoples of the Casamance shared a common history (of European colonialism) and had a common dilemma in dealing with exploitation within the Senegalese state, it was largely the Diola people who felt the need to mobilize and resist.
		Although Diolas might have felt jealous resentment toward the Wolofs who control the state, their main issue has been grounded in political and economic realities, not in "ethnic" animosities, although the issues overlap.
		Diolas have complained that Serers, Toucouleurs and Wolof Muslims were allocated land for peanut farming, at the expense of the Diola economy.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /fwc/Issue6/senegal-2.html (1065 words)

	Land tenure systems in Ziguinchor, Senegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As a result of the constant growth of the population and the comparatively low supply of legalized building plots by local authorities, people who seek a shelter for their own, are driven to the periphery of the town.
		The Diola villages were very big (consisting of 500 to 7,000 inhabitants) and they were not only economically self-supporting, but were also autonomous in the political and religious field.
		But when the adjaoura perceived that their adjiati was allocating plots of land in the area to total strangers, to people not belonging to the adjaoura group, the foundation of important security was washed away.
	www.xs4all.nl /~ideecasa/zanboko.htm (8717 words)

	DAILY STAR People & Events
		Ely Mayo Diola, an employee of the Cadiz City government, won this year's composo, making it his grandslam, having won the composo competition straight since year 2001, a press release from Cadiz said.
		Diola, rendered the winning piece with pure emotions and vocal prowess, the press release said.
		Diola won a cash prize which will be awarded today at the Panaad Grandstand, Bacolod City.
	www.visayandailystar.com /2003/April/05/people.htm (415 words)

	G.R. No. 136137
		Later, Antonio Diola also asked her to dance and when she again declined, he went back to his companions who were seated on a table.
		On cross-examination, the witness acknowledged as being the sister-in-law of accused Orlando "Kolot" Leyson and admitted personally knowing accused Antonio Diola and Calixto Biong and that it was the father of Diola himself who convinced her to take the witness stand.
		The person whom I first saw was he (witness is pointing to accused Antonio Diola to be the person whom she saw first) who was wearing an undershirt (sando) at that time.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri2001/dec2001/gr_136137_2001.html (4100 words)

	No quick end in sight to Casamance rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		And its people have a distinctive ethnic and religious identity.
		Handicap International (HI), an NGO monitoring landmines in the region, said 15 people were injured by land mines during the first 10 months of this year.
		Thousands of people displaced by the conflict are still waiting for an end to the conflict before returning home.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=44380 (1491 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Diolas in Casamance in Senegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The demonstration led to numerous clashes injuring a dozen people and to the arrest of 63.
		The main reason for the split was attributed to the Nord people's fear of losing their cultural identity by being dominated by Diolas.
		Some 850 people suspected of involvement in both petty crimes and crimes associated with the MFDC were arrested in a security sweep in Dakar over the weekend.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=43301 (3783 words)

	Global Nation \| INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Diola, spiritual director and vice chairman of the Church-based lay group Barug Pilipino, said he was not sure if the President was ready to follow her conscience if it told her to quit to save the country.
		Diola said the bishops' call for discernment is difficult for most people because "the background of any examination of conscience is the Last Judgment."
		Father Diola called on the initiators of the impeachment process against Arroyo and the President herself to preserve "unity in essentials, freedom in non-essentials, and charity in all things," while the nation steers itself through the current crisis and political impasse.
	www.inq7.net /globalnation/sec_cdn/2005/jul/new/jul15_01.htm (704 words)

	Travel in Casamance - Senegal - Africa - History - WorldTravelGate.net®- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It was because of this activity that the Diola were driven downstream by the Mandingo.
		The Diola people, already harassed themselves, were not disposed, or able, to give the French any help.
		Although not giving their support to such men as Fodé Sylla, Ibrahima Njaay or Fodé Kaba, the Diola in 1857 rose up against the French presence themselves and attacked Karabane in 1858, where Captain Protet (son of the admiral) was killed by a poisoned arrow.
	www.africatravelling.net /senegal/casamance/casamance_history.htm (256 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		The Diola live in clans, and the clan is the most important aspect of their lives.
		The Diola still practice polygamy (multiple spouses), and young people are encouraged to marry within their own clans.
		Their religious ideals share several similarities with Christianity: the belief in one God who is eternal, creator, and omniscient; the existence of protecting spirits or angels; the concept of the sanctuary, or the holy of holies; the Spirit of God who communicates; and analogies to explain complex concepts.
	kcm.co.kr /bethany_eng/p_code5/150.html (778 words)

	ANB-BIA SUPPLEMENT - ISSUE/EDITION Nr 333 - 01/11/1997
		This socio-historical in-depth study, reveals the "bellicose" character of the Diola, as people greatly influenced by their physical, intellectual and social environment, and their experiences under a colonial power.
		He writes: "The Diola are willing to share their life-experiences with others; they have come to grips with the world they know; they have a rich and complex religion, linking them closely to the spirit world.
		It's frustrating and all the people of Casamance complain about what's happening...when the firemen's depot was built, absolutely everything was brought in from outside the region; nobody from Casamance worked on the project.
	ospiti.peacelink.it /anb-bia/nr333/e06.html (1622 words)

	Diola: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Diola Diola Diola is a people living in The Gambia, Senegal (Casamance), and...the Slave Trade : Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia (http://hallworldhistory.c...
		Diola is a people living in The Gambia, Senegal (Casamance), and Guinea-Bissau.
		Shrines of the Slave Trade : Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia (http://hallworldhistory.com/africa/581.shtml), by Robert Martin Baum, Hardcover (April 1999), Oxford Univ Press; ISBN 0195123921
	www.encyclopedian.com /di/Diola.html (167 words)

	senegal, west africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Today the Diola tribe and others living in lower Casamance, Senegal are confronted by many adverse circumstances, leading to increasingly dire crises on all levels of life.
		For example, while the Diola people have inherited a rich animist tradition that mandates their guardianship of indigenous rain forests, in the effort to meet immediate local subsistence needs, forests are being cleared to provide needed arable land and to make charcoal used for cooking.
		In response, a comprehensive social, economic and environmental intervention is critical to the survival of the Casamance eco-system and the Diola people.
	www.empowermentworks.org /in-action-senegal.html (748 words)

	ECCP
		The Diola people are the majority group in Casamance, but the ethnic mix is varied.
		Diola resistance against the French was quick to emerge and as late as 1943, the French sent the traditional Diola ruler, Queen Diatta into exile.
		According to anthropologists, sacred groves are an important institution in Diola society and the symbolism of the demonstration may be related to the fact that administrative reforms, introduced by the government at the time, ran counter to traditional structures of governance in the region.
	www.conflict-prevention.net /page.php?id=40&formid=73&action=show&surveyid=57 (3921 words)

	CrisisSenegal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		That the crisis has not subsided is also because the people responsible for atrocities are never brought to justice.
		That ethnicity is a major factor in Senegalese politics is attested by the political sentiment of the Diola people of the
		The economic condition of the Diola people of the Casamance province is a direct result of colonialism.
	www.unitedafricaorganization.org /CrisisSenegal.html (5343 words)

	Election Violence in Abidjan: October 24-26, 2000 (Human Rights Watch Press release, New York, December 20, 2000)
		In Abobo, nine young Diola men, many from the same extended family, were captured by police and taken away in a public transport vehicle.
		I was crying and held on to the back of it and begged them to tell me where they were being taken, but one of the police pushed me hard and I almost fell on the ground and said I asked too many questions.
		I don't think anyone died in custody but I saw a good number of people who'd lost consciousness and people who couldn't stand anymore and so many of us were bleeding and cut all over.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/africa/IvoryCoastbrf.htm (4676 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Curse Hangs over African Languages in Senegal
		DJIBONKOR, Senegal — Legend has it that the Bainouk people of southern Senegal were cursed by a tyrannical king, who with his dying breath condemned them to wander in poverty forever.
		With a fierce history of independence, the Diola peoples of Casamance resisted the onslaught of Mandinka-speaking tribes from the Sahara.
		Wolof is spoken by around 40 percent of Senegal's 11 million people as their mother tongue, and by around the same number as a second language.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-1-18/37167.html (893 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height.
		Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade.
		In this work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195123921 (460 words)

	Conflict in Senegal ravages lives and land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Separated from the rest of Senegal by Gambia, Casamance is lush, green and populated by the Christian and animist Diola people.
		Many of the 800,000 people in Casamance, whether they support the rebellion or not, feel the differences have left them neglected, deprived of jobs and public works projects and victimized by northern land speculators.
		Today, they appear to have little support among the people they claim to be liberating.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/98/05/17/sider.2-0.html (802 words)

	Diola people Did You Mean diola_people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Predominantly a settled, agricultural people, they practise rice-based farming in the riverine areas of the Senegambia.
		Distinctively in a largely Muslim region, the Diola are mostly Catholic.
		Shrines of the Slave Trade : Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia, by Robert Martin Baum, Hardcover (April 1999), Oxford Univ Press; ISBN 0195123921
	www.did-you-mean.com /Diola_people.html (79 words)

	Biography for Ousmane Sembene : Melbourne Indymedia
		Emitai (1971) records the struggle of the Diola people of the Casamance region of Senegal (where Sembene grew up) against the French authorities during WWII.
		Shot in Diola dialect and French from an original script, EMITAI offers a respectful but unromanticized depiction of an ancient tribal culture, while highlighting the role of women in the struggle against colonialist oppression.
		His efforts became aimed at educating the people, in the language of the people, following in the millennia-long tradition of many African oral cultures where, at night, people gathered around a wood fire and listened to stories told by either the griot (a professional storyteller) or by the elders.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2005/07/93218.php (9305 words)

	The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest - Cambridge University Press
		Based on seven field trips to West Africa and fifteen years of research in colonial archives and in museum collections from Dakar to Leipzig, Professor Mark's work presents a subtle interpretation of Casamance horned masquerades, their complex ritual symbolism, and the metaphysical concepts to which they allude.
		(The masks protect against the power of the kussay, or "sorcerers".) In tracing the cultural interaction and changing identity of the peoples of the Casamance, the author convincingly argues for a new and dynamic approach to art and ethnic identity.
		This dynamic model reflects the long history of interaction between Manding and Diola and between Muslim and non-Muslim, a process that has resulted in the creation of hybrid masking forms.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /us/catalogue/print.asp?isbn=052141346X&print=y (366 words)

	Diola Religion History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Numbering some four hundred thousand people, the Diola inhabit the well-watered coastal plain between the Gambia and São Domingo rivers of Senegambia and Guinea-Bissau.
		Despite a common ethnic label the various Diola subgroups speak distinct dialects and have somewhat divergent religious beliefs and political organizations.
		The past two centuries of Diola religious history have been characterized by the increasing interaction of Diola religion with Islam and Christianity.
	www.bookrags.com /history/religion/diola-religion-eorl-04 (291 words)

	Afghanistan Chronology
		December 12 1992: Senegalese infantry forces bombarded the Sao Domingos region of Guinea-Bissau, alleging that the attack was on bases of the Casamançe rebels.
		February 20-21 1993: During the first round of presidential elections, at least 30 people were killed in various activities attributed to the MFDC.
		September 10 1993: One person was killed and another was wounded when three people, who were believed to be separatists, reportedly refused to comply with a routine identity check.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/sencasamchro.htm (4018 words)

	Media & Reserve Services - Africa-Relted Videos and Films at UIUC
		The film tells the story of the proud people of Niger who are dying by the thousands from starvation and disease brought on by six years of drought.
		Music and pictures of carved masks and statues are used to portray the life of the peoples of West and Central Africa and to reflect their fundamental fears and emotions.
		A delegation of the Gullah people of South Carolina, who have maintained many aspects of African culture in their lives, were invited to travel to Sierra Leone to rediscover their connections with the West African people.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /ugl/mrc/africaVideos.html (12907 words)

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