Gouin (ethnicity)

The Gouin (also Guin , Kpen , Mbwen ) are an ethnic group from West Africa . The Gouin mainly populate the north of the Ivory Coast and the southwest of Burkina Faso . They speak a Niger-Congo language and are closely related to the Senufo . Around 100,000 people belong to the ethnic group (as of 2005).

The Gouin traditionally live from cattle breeding and the cultivation of millet , cassava and yams .

Individual evidence

^ Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-19-517055-5 , pp. 30 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ James Stuart Olson : The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary . Greenwood Publishing Group, Portsmouth 1996, ISBN 0-313-27918-7 , pp. 203 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[1] Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-19-517055-5 , pp. 30 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] James Stuart Olson : The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary . Greenwood Publishing Group, Portsmouth 1996, ISBN 0-313-27918-7 , pp. 203 ( limited preview in Google Book search).