Early Life
Garan Fabou Kouyaté is from the Griot or Djeli family (African traditional story tellers, singers, and mediators). He is the son of Fabou and Fatoumata Kouyaté and the cousin of the famous Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté (killed in 1942 for his political affiliation and anti-colonialism). Garan Fabou Kouyaté did his primary education in the 1930s in the city of Bamako during the French colonization in Mali (called French Sudan back then). He continued his studies until the mid 1940s when he graduated as a civil administrator. He worked in Segou, Sikasso, Nioro, and Bamako in the 1950s and 1960s.
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