KAYES, APOSTOLIC PREFECTURE OF. - In French West Africa, erected on 12 June 1947 with territory detached from the apostolic vicariate of Bamako (v.) and entrusted to the Society of Missionaries of Africa. It comprises the civil districts of K., Kita, Bafoulabé, Nioro, Nara, Néma, inhabited by an indigenous population belonging to the following tribes: Malinke, Kassonke, Marka, Bambara and "Touscouleurs". The Mande and Fula dialects are spoken there.

The climate is torrid. The area is about 1,000,000 cm with a population of about 700,000 people, of whom 1,777 are indigenous Catholics, 325 foreigners, 113 of mixed race, and 164 catechumens. Muslims number about 500,000 and animist pagans about 200,000; both are deeply attached to their own cults. The missionaries (1949) number 8, with 2 brothers and 6 sisters. There are 8 major seminarians studying in the seminaries of the neighboring apostolic vicariate of Bamako. Catechists 18. Quasi-parishes 3, secondary stations 11, churches and chapels 20, dispensaries 2, orphanages 1 with 192 girls, elementary schools 3 with 342 pupils. Catholic Action is developing.

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BIBL.: AAS, 39 (1937), pp. 438-39; Arch. di Prop. Fide, Prospectus status missionis, pos. prot. n. 3508/49.

Saverio Paventi

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