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"Yé ké yé ké" is a song by Guinean recording artist Mory Kanté. It was written by him and released on his third album, Á Paris, in 1984.A remixed version was included in his fifth album, Akwaba Beach (1987), and released as a single.
Yeke may refer to: Yeke Kingdom (1856–1891), in Katanga, DR Congo; Yeke people, or Garanganze people, in Katanga, DR Congo; Yeke Juu League, current Ordos City, in Inner Mongolia, China; Yé ké yé ké, famous African song by Mory Kanté "Yeke Yeke", a song by Werrason featuring Bikorine & But Na Fillet, 2020; Yekke, a Jew of German-speaking ...
In 1971 Kanté became a member of the Rail Band, in which Salif Keita was a singer. [2] Keïta left the band in 1973, leaving Kanté as the singer. [2]In 1987, he released the song "Yé ké yé ké", which was one of Africa's best-ever selling hits as well as being a European number-one in 1988, making it the first ever African single to sell over one million copies. [8]
The wave of immigration to British Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s known as the Fifth Aliyah had a large proportion of Yekkes, around 25% (55,000 immigrants). ). Many of them settled in the vicinity of Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, leading to the nickname "Ben Yehuda Str
Yeke, means owner of the land. He was the first man to settle and farm land and was the father of Jaki, one of the hero-ancestors. ... meaning cleansing the territory
The Garanganze, Yeke or Bayeke are a people of Katanga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They established the Yeke Kingdom under the warrior-king Msiri , who dominated the southern part of Central Africa from 1850 to 1891 and controlled the trade route between Angola and Zanzibar from his capital, at Bunkeya .
The Yeke Kingdom (also called the Garanganze or Garenganze kingdom) of the Garanganze people in Katanga, DR Congo, was short-lived, existing from about 1856 to 1891 under one king, Msiri, but it became for a while the most powerful state in south-central Africa, controlling a territory of about half a million square kilometres.
In the mid-19th century, a Nyamwezi trader from Tabora in modern-day Tanzania called Msiri founded the powerful but short-lived Yeke Kingdom. Msiri's home district was called Garanganza, a name which came to be used for the Yeke Kingdom as well. Msiri married the daughter of Chief Katanga, who protected him against the xenophobia of Chief ...