Bedick

The Bedick are an African minority ethnic group. [ [http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/program_content/contents.cfm?include=sgr_excursions.html&progCode=ssa.sgr Senegal: Arts and Culture:Kedougou: Ethnic Minorities Discovery] at School for International Training ] They live in villages in the most isolated area of eastern Senegal, in the Arrondissement of Bandafassi. [ [http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-43036-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html BANDAFASSI DSS, SENEGAL] ] Iwol is one of their settlements. More connected with Guinea Conakry or Mali than with Senegal, Bedick people have contact with other ethnic groups like Bassari and Serer. They speak the Bedick language and their religion is a mixture between their animist roots and the Christian influence. Their ancestors are the families Keita and Camera that came from Mali because of the War led by Alpha Yaye coming from Fouta Djalion.

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