Fouta Djallon

American  

[foo-tuh juh-lohn, foo-tai dja-lawn] / ˈfu tə dʒəˈloʊn, fuˈtɛə ddʒa lɔ̃ /

Or Futa Jallon

noun

1. a highland pastoral region in West Africa, in central Guinea, also in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 30,000 sq. mi. (77,700 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg