Timeline of Conakry explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Conakry, Guinea.

Prior to 20th century

• 1885  - French in power on Tombo Island.
• 1891  - Conakry becomes capital of French colonial Riviéres du Sud.
• 1893  - Conakry becomes part of colonial French Guinea.

20th century

• 1904  - Conakry municipality established.
• 1914  - Kankan-Conakry railway begins operating.^[1]
• 1928  - Cathedrale Sainte-Marie construction begins.
• 1937  - La Douce Parisette (musical group) active.^[2]
• 1943  - Population: 21,217 city; 5,586 suburbs.
• 1947  - Franco-Guinean Union (political party) headquartered in city.^[3]
• 1948  - Population: 30,000 city.
• 1951  - Hafia Football Club formed.
• 1954  - Hotel de France in business.
• 1955  - Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Conakry established.^[4]
• 1956  - Ahmed Sékou Touré elected mayor.
• 1958
  • City becomes part of independent Guinea.
  • Population: 78,388 city.
  • Area of city: 2,000 hectares.
• 1959  - Donka Hospital built.
• 1960
  • Camp Boiro concentration camp begins operating.
  • Sandervalia National Museum established.
• 1960s  - Bembeya Jazz band active.
• 1961  - Horoya newspaper begins publication.^[5]
• 1962
  • Polytechnical Institute of Conakry established.^[6]
  • Stade du 28 Septembre opens.
• 1964
  • Quinzaines Artistiques cultural festival begins.^[7]
  • Hotel Palm Camayenne in business.
  • Population: 175,000 urban agglomeration (including city).^[8]
• 1966  - Palais du Peuple built.^[9]
• 1967  - Population: 197,267 urban agglomeration (estimate).^[10]
• 1970  - 22 November: Portuguese invasion of Guinea-Conakry.
• 1971
  • January: Hanging of government officials on 8 November Bridge.
  • Monument du 22 Novembre 1970 erected.
• 1973  - 20 January: Assassination of Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amílcar Cabral.
• 1975  - Horoya Athlétique Club formed.
• 1982  - Conakry Grand Mosque opens.
• 1983
  • Population: 100,000 city.
  • Area of city: 6,900 hectares.
• 1984  - March: Funeral of Ahmed Sékou Touré.
• 1985  - Conakry International Airport terminal built.
• 1991  - City administration sectioned into 5 communes: Dixinn, Kaloum, Matam, Matoto, Ratoma.
• 1992  - Le Lynx satirical newspaper begins publication.^[11]
• 1998  - Presidential Palace rebuilt.
• 1999  - Hotel Mariador Palace in business.

21st century

• 2004  - Maison du Livre (bookshop) in business.^[12]
• 2007  - January–February: 2007 Guinean general strike.
• 2008
  • 26 September: Funeral of Lansana Conté.
  • 23 December: 2008 Guinean coup d'état.
• 2009  - 28 September: 2009 Guinea protest and crackdown.^{[13] [14]}
• 2010  - September: Pre-election unrest.^[15]
• 2011
  • Nongo Stadium built.
  • Population: 1,786,000 (urban agglomeration).^[16]
• 2014
  • March: Conakry regional governor Sékou Resco Camara leaves office.^[17]
  • Population: 1,659,785.
• 2017  - City named World Book Capital by UNESCO
• 2021
• 5 September  - 2021 Guinean coup d'état.

See also

• List of Conakry mayors and other local officials (in French)
• History of Guinea
• Politics of Guinea

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• From Hill Station (Freetown) to Downtown Conakry (First Ward): Comparing French and British Approaches to Segregation in Colonial Cities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century . Odile Goerg . Canadian Journal of African Studies . 32 . 1998 . 1 . 1–31 . 10.2307/486222 . 486222 .
• Book: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh . Encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century African History . 2003. Routledge. 978-1-134-56584-9 . Conakry, Guinea . Nicole D. Anderson . .
• Book: . Encyclopedia of African History . 2005 . Fitzroy Dearborn . 978-1-135-45670-2 . Conakry . https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&pg=PA293 . Odile Goerg . .
• Chieftainships between Past and Present: From City to Suburb and Back in Colonial Conakry, 1890s-1950s . Odile Goerg . Africa Today . 52 . 2006 . 4 . 3–27 . 10.1353/at.2006.0044 . 4187737 . 143660664 . .
• Book: West Africa . 2009 . . 978-1-74104-821-6 . Guinea: Conakry . https://books.google.com/books?id=1HapewBo3c0C&pg=PA401 . 401+ . .
  • Book: Brigit Obrist. Living the City in Africa: Processes of Invention and Intervention . 2013. . 978-3-643-80152-4 . Youth gangs and urban political protests: a relational perspective on Conakry's 'Axis of Evil' . Joschka Philipps . etal.

in French

• Book: Ch. Brossard. fr. Géographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France. Flammarion. Paris. Colonies françaises. 1906. Afrique occidentale française: Guinée française: Villes principales: Conakry. 2027/mdp.39015005579753?urlappend=%3Bseq=308. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005579753?urlappend=%3Bseq=308. (+ table of contents)
• Odile Goerg . Conakry: un modèle de ville coloniale française? Règlements fonciers et urbanisme, de 1885 aux années 1920 . . 25 . 10.3406/cea.1985.1733 . fr . . 1985. 99 . 309–335 .
• Julie Kébé-Gangneux . Quand les citadins font et défont la ville à Conakry: le droit à l'espace . When citizens assemble and disassemble the city in Conakry: the right to space . . . Montreal . 10 . fr . . 2016 .

External links

• Web site: (Conakry) . . UK . (Bibliography of open access articles)
• Web site: (Conakry) . . (Images, etc.)
• Web site: (Conakry) . . (Images, etc.)
• Web site: (Conakry) . . . Germany . (Bibliography)
• Web site: (Conakry) . Connecting-Africa . . Leiden, Netherlands . (Bibliography)
• Web site: (Conakry) . . (Bibliography)
• Web site: (Conakry) . . Christian Zimmermann . Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis . US . (Bibliography)
• Web site: Conakry, Guinea . . 26 August 2014 . US .

Notes and References

1. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. France: Africa: French West Africa and the Sahara . https://archive.org/stream/statesmansyearbo1921londuoft#page/898/mode/1up . . 895–903 . French Guinea .
2. Book: Eric S. Charry . Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa . 2000. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-10161-3.
3. Book: Elizabeth Schmidt. Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958. 2007. Ohio University Press. 978-0-8214-1763-8.
4. Web site: Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Guinea . www.katolsk.no . Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese) . Norway . 30 September 2014 .
5. Web site: Conakry (Guinea) -- Newspapers . . Chicago, US . Global Resources Network . 30 September 2014 .
6. Web site: Membres . Agence universitaire de la Francophonie . fr . 30 September 2014 .
7. Book: Mohamed Saliou Camara. Historical Dictionary of Guinea. 2013 . 5th . . 978-0-8108-7969-0. etal.
8. Book: Demographic Yearbook 1965 . 1966 . . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants .
9. Book: Don Rubin. World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre . 3: Africa . 1997. Routledge. 978-1-136-35949-1 . Guinea . https://books.google.com/books?id=SYmMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 . etal.
10. Book: 1995 Demographic Yearbook . 1997 . United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 262–321 .
11. Book: Europa World Year Book 2004 . 1857432533 . . Guinea: Directory . 29 July 2004 . https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA1962 .
12. Web site: Guinée . Liste des libraires . Association internationale des Libraires francophones . Paris . fr . 30 September 2014 .
13. News: Guinea Profile: Timeline . BBC News . 18 May 2011 . 30 September 2014 .
14. Web site: The Challenges of Daily Life in Conakry, Guinea . 7 January 2014 . Global Voices.
15. Web site: Guinea: Violent Confrontations in Conakry Prior To The Second Round . 13 September 2010 . Global Voices.
16. Book: The State of African Cities 2014 . 10 September 2015 . 978-92-1-132598-0 . . 30 September 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195641/https://unhabitat.org/the-state-of-african-cities-2014/ . 10 September 2014 .
17. Web site: Resco Camara quitte le gouvernorat de Conakry . 20 March 2014 . lejourguinee.com . fr .