Malianliterature is the literature of the modern country of Mali. The ruler of the Songhai Empire at the time, Askia the Great was a patron of literature...
This is a list of Malian writers. Ahmad Baba al Massufi (1556–1627), writer and scholar. Abdoulaye Ascofaré (1949– ), poet and filmmaker. Ibrahima Aya...
A., ed. (1999), In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature and Performance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (A collection...
The Children of Segu (French: Ségou: la terre en miettes, lit. Segu: The Earth in Pieces) is a French sequel to Maryse Condé's 1984 historical fiction...
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originally written in French. This book describes the life of Tierno Bokar, a Malian Sufi who preached a message of religious tolerance. It was adapted into...
This legend is told and sung by griots and has been recorded by several Malian musicians. In 2005, the Dansa-Diawoura Festival ended with a day dedicated...
French military launched Operation Serval in January 2013. A month later, Malian and French forces recaptured most of the north, although the conflict continued...
literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often...
Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language...
polity, and the interaction of the numerous cultures which make up the Malian people. What is today the nation of Mali was united first in the medieval...
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While, It tends to be dominated by...
Somali literature is the literature used by the ethnic Somalis of Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Yemen, Eritrea, Ogadenia, and Kenya. Due to the Somali...
The 426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami devastated the coasts of the Malian and Euboean Gulfs, Greece, in the summer of 426 BC. Thucydides inquired into its causes...
Paradise Lost, The Secret History of the Mongols, the Kyrgyz Manas, and the Malian Sundiata. Epic poems of the modern era include Derek Walcott's Omeros, Mircea...
symbols. Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over...
Malian passports are issued to Malian citizens to travel outside Mali. It is the only proof for international travel. It can also be used in identification...
Islamic literature is literature written by Muslim people, influenced by an Islamic cultural perspective, or literature that portrays Islam. It can be...
role in trans-Saharan trade, connecting West Africa and the Maghreb. The Malian city Timbuktu is exemplary of this: situated on the southern fringe of the...
Sindhi literature (Sindhi: سنڌي ادب) is the collection of oral and written literature in the Sindhi language in prose (romantic tales and epic stories)...
in Mamluk Egypt. His information about the empire came from visiting Malians taking the hajj, or pilgrim's voyage to Mecca. He had first-hand information...
a solution stalled, and in 1983 Burkinabé President Thomas Sankara and Malian President Moussa Traoré decided to have the border dispute settled by the...
Azerbaijani literature (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan ədəbiyyatı, آذربایجان ادبیاتی) is written in Azerbaijani, a Turkic language, which is the official state...
postcolonial conflict and progress. Forming just less than half Mali's population, Malian women have sometimes been the center of matrilineal societies, but have...
the sun sets, West), but tin has nothing to do with well." Berber origin: Malian historian Sekene Cissoko proposes a different etymology: the Tuareg founders...
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