THE REPERTOIRE · FOUNDATIONAL DOSSIER

Kharim Kouanda

Kharim Yamana · the foundational Kouanda family dossier

Kharim Kouanda in traditional dress, family archive portrait.Credit: Kouanda family archive.

Kharim Yamana — the man

Kharim Kouanda, remembered in family memory as Kharim Yamana, is the foundational figure in the Yamana Kouanda branch dossier. Family and community accounts describe him as a marabout, teacher and religious authority.

What is established

Kharim Kouanda is believed to have passed away around the 1960s.
He is identified as the father of Mahamadi Lamine Kouanda under current family authority.
Kharim Kouanda and Dr. Assimi Kouanda are not genealogically related.

Yamana & the Kouanda branch

Yamana is the place of memory at the center of the foundational dossier. Family relationships, descendants and documents are published as evidence-bearing records when a family authority or source supports them, never from a shared surname.

Marabout, teacher & religious authority

Kharim Yamana’s religious role is presented as family and community memory to be compared with sources. Teaching or spiritual authority is not treated as proof of kinship with another person.

Central Mosque inaugural-prayer investigation

Family and community memory associates Kharim Yamana with an inaugural prayer during the foundation phase of the Central Mosque of Ouagadougou in the 1950s. Documentary corroboration remains open.

The dossier never associates him with the inauguration of the 1979 reconstruction.

Mahamadi Lamine Kouanda — son & public legacy

The Kharim → Mahamadi father-son relationship is preserved under current family authority. The public record remains limited to supported claims and does not publish a portrait without authorization.

Descendants & related Kouanda records

Descendants and related Kouanda records are linked only where a source or family authority supports them. The Repertoire keeps documented family, open research and historical context distinct.

French / WWII question

Open research. Military, pension, nationality and wartime records are being sought before any conclusion is published.

Documents, photographs & manuscripts being sought

1941 marabout files, mosque committee material, ceremony registers or programmes, civil records, photographs and documents held by the family.

Oral histories

Oral accounts are retained with consent, context and testimony status. They guide recovery work without being relabeled as automatic documentary proof.

What is established / what is being recovered

Family authority, the father-son relationship and the approximate death wording are established in the current authority. Mosque chronology, the French question and missing records remain subjects of recovery and verification.

Sources & research notes

Kouanda family authority, Repertoire records, contextualized testimony and institutional documents still to be recovered. Each proposition remains tied to its evidence state.

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Contribute evidence / corrections

Offer a photograph, document, testimony or correction through the contribution path. Additions remain subject to provenance, rights, consent and review.

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