* Rios: large estuaries running deep into the mainland, formed by rivers descending from Fouta Djallon to the coasts of Guinea and Guinea Bissau.
* The almami: the king of kings, the monarch of Fouta Djallon.
* Saint-Gobain made its fortune by buying the Olivier and Perret factories.
* Bôwé (singular bôwal): high grassy plateaus characteristic of Fouta Djallon. Touldé: tabular-shaped granitic hillocks.
* Porto (plural Portôbé): the Fula name for Europeans.
* Lougan: the vegetable garden generally found around huts in Fouta Djallon.
* Today, the former is the seat of the presidency of the Republic of Guinea, and the latter the Conakry museum.
* Adjami: Fula writing in Arabic script.
* Translator’s Note: bismillahi means in the name of God in Arabic.
* Destroyed and rebuilt several times, it now houses the Conakry museum. The hut is intact and the neighborhood is still known as Sandervalia (“Sanderval’s place,” in the Susu language).
* The king of Labé was arrested a few years later and exiled to Dahomey, then to Mauritania, where he died in 1912.
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