The Mandinka or Malinke are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, the Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea. Numbering about...
Look up Mandinka, mandika, Mandinkha, mandinko, or Mandingo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mandinka, Mandika, Mandinkha, Mandinko, or Mandingo may...
The Mandinka language (Mandi'nka kango; Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern...
status of "national languages": Wolof, Balanta-Ganja, Arabic, Jola-Fonyi, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon (Serer-Noon), Pulaar, Serer, and Soninke. In terms...
more widespread, at almost 70%. The name "Gambia" is derived from the Mandinka term Kambra/Kambaa, meaning the Gambia River (or possibly from the sacred...
/ 10.860056; -14.424056 The Wassoulou empire, also referred to as the Mandinka Empire, Samory's Empire or the Samorian State, was a short-lived West African...
countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There...
language-dialect continuum in West Africa Mandinka (disambiguation) Mandinka language, one of the Manding languages Mandinka people, a West African ethnic group...
(1537–1867), also written Gabu, Ngabou, and N'Gabu, was a federation of Mandinka kingdoms in the Senegambia region centered within modern northeastern Guinea-Bissau...
Sundiata Keita (Mandinka, Malinke: [sʊndʒæta keɪta]; c. 1217–c. 1255, N'Ko spelling: ߛߏ߲߬ߖߘߊ߬ ߞߋߕߊ߬; also known as Manding Diara, Lion of Mali, Sogolon...
spread of its language, laws, and customs. The empire began as a small Mandinka kingdom at the upper reaches of the Niger River, centered around the Manding...
referred to as the Mandinka, Mandingo or Malinke) is a major ethnic group in Sierra Leone[citation needed] and a branch of the Mandinka people of West Africa...
Mali, Liberia, Ivory Coast and the Gambia. Their best-known members are Mandinka or Mandingo, the principal language of The Gambia; Bambara, the most widely...
Senegal, tigadèguèna originates from the Mandinka and Bambara people of Mali. The proper name for it in the Mandinka language is domodah or tigadegena (lit...
(c. 1235), was a confrontation between Sosso king Sumanguru Kanté and Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita. Sundiata Keita's forces roundly defeated those of...
Gift. According to the book Roots, Kunta Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Jufureh, in the Gambia. He was raised in a Muslim family. In...
Bakindick Mandinka is a town in western Gambia. It is located in Lower Niumi District in the North Bank Division. As of 2008, it has an estimated population...
in many parts of West Africa and are present among the Mande peoples (Mandinka or Malinké, Bambara, Bwaba Bobo people ]], Dioula people ]],Soninke etc...
the Gambia. It is based on the music of a traditional Mandinka song, to which original Mandinka lyrics were written by Jali Nyama Suso. An English arrangement...
Niani was a Mandinka kingdom located on the north bank of the Gambia River from approximately the 14th to the late 19th century in what is now The Gambia...
scholars, however, have shown that they were a Mande people, likely the Mandinka who established themselves in the area around Moussadougou, Guinea in the...
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