Jokkondiral

For West African families and the diaspora

Your family tree, from generation to generation.

Build your extended family's tree with your cousins, at home and abroad. Co-wives, fostering, namesakes, clans: Jokkondiral speaks the language of our families.

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Built for our realities

  • Every wife, every child

    One father, several mothers: each child is linked to their mother, and the tree fans out with one branch per wife.

  • Your father's side and your mother's side

    Geño and meen, simanGol and tim, abusua: follow your paternal and your maternal lineage.

  • The voice of the elders

    Record a grandmother or a griot and link the recording to the people it mentions. Oral memory is no longer lost.

  • Dates the way we know them

    “Born around 1945”, “the year of independence”: no exact date needed to add someone.

Words of Fulani wisdom

Proverbs, and Fulani writers who carried the words of the elders down to us.

  • « Neɗɗo ko banndum »
    A person is their kin.— Fulani proverb
  • « Endam ma woni koltuma »
    Kinship is a person's clothing.Like clothing, kinship protects, and it keeps one's honour and dignity.— Fulani proverb
  • « So kosam jilli fitina daawi »
    When milk is mixed, conflict departs.Mixing milk seals an alliance, which shields families from quarrels.— Fulani proverb
  • « Ko enndu wooturu »
    It is the same breast.Those who drank the same milk owe each other solidarity, whatever happens.— Fulani proverb
  • « Muñal deefan hayre »
    Patience can cook a stone.— Fulani proverb
  • « Anndireede peewal ɓuri anndireede keewal »
    Better to be known for honesty than for wealth.— Fulani proverb
  • “I am a graduate of the great university of the Spoken Word, taught in the shade of the baobab trees.”
    — Amadou Hampâté Bâ (translated from French)
  • “In Africa, when an old man dies, a library burns.”
    — Amadou Hampâté Bâ, UNESCO, 1960 (translated from French)
  • “If you know that you do not know, you will know.”
    — Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Amkoullel, l'enfant peul, 1991 (translated from French)
  • “Is what they will learn worth what they will forget?”
    — Cheikh Hamidou Kane, L'Aventure ambiguë, 1961 (translated from French)