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The Wangara (also known as Wakore, Wankori, Ouankri, Wangarawa, Dyula, Jula, Jakhanke, Jalonke) are a subgroup of the Soninke who later became assimilated (at varying degrees) merchant classes that specialized in both Trans Saharan and Secret Trade of Gold Dust. Their diaspora operated all throughout West Africa Sahel-Sudan. Fostering regionally organized trade networks and Architecture projects. But based in the many Sahelian and Niger-Volta-Sene-Gambia river city-states. Particularly Dia, Timbuktu, Agadez, Kano, Gao, Koumbi Saleh, Guidimaka, Salaga, Kong, Bussa, Bissa, Kankan, Jallon, Djenné as well as Bambouk, Bure, Lobi, and (to a lesser degree) Bono State goldfields and Borgu.[1] They also were practicing Muslims with a clerical social class (Karamogo), Timbuktu Alumni political advisors, Sufi Mystic healers and individual leaders (Marabout). Living by a philosophy of mercantile pacifism called the Suwarian Tradition. Teaching peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims, reserving Jihad for self-defence only and even serving as Soothsayers or a "priesthood" of literate messengers for non-Muslim Chiefdoms/Kingdoms. This gave them a degree of control and immense wealth in lands where they were the minority. Creating contacts with almost all West African religious denominations. A group of Mande traders, loosely associated with the Kingdoms of the Sahel region and other West African Empires. Such as Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Bono State, Kong, Borgu, Dendi, Macina, Hausa Kingdoms & the Pashalik of Timbuktu. Wangara also describes any land south of Timbuktu and Agadez. The Bilad-Al-Sudan or Bilad-Al-Tibr, "Land of Black" or "Gold."
^Swartz, B. K.; Dumett, Raymond E. (2011-06-15). West African Culture Dynamics: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-080068-5.
The Wangara (also known as Wakore, Wankori, Ouankri, Wangarawa, Dyula, Jula, Jakhanke, Jalonke) are a subgroup of the Soninke who later became assimilated...
Subgroups of Soninke include the Jakhanke, Maraka and Wangara. When the Ghana empire was destroyed, the resulting diaspora brought Soninkes to Mali, Mauritania...
Wangara may refer to: The SoninkeWangara of West Africa Wangara, Western Australia Wangara, Burkina Faso This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
Timbuktu, and then onto Djenne. There the salt was exchanged with the SoninkeWangara for gold. He died in Lisbon in 1518 or 1519. He worked with different...
al-Fattash offers three different theories: that they were Soninke; or Wangara (a Soninke/Mande group), which the author considered improbable; or that...
control when the French arrived: Elias N. Saad in 1983 suggests the SoninkeWangara, a 1924 article in the Journal of the Royal African Society mentions...
tradition claims Abu Bakr was killed in a clash with the "Gangara" (SoninkeWangara of the Tagant Region of southern Mauritania), relating that he was...
mentions the Tuareg, the historian Elias N. Saad in 1983 suggests the SoninkeWangara, while the Africanist John Hunwick wrote in 2003 that several states...
but were unable to gain mastery over them. In 1350, Yaji aided by SoninkeWangara scholars from Mali, relinquished the Hausa Animist Cult of Tsumbubura...
2Wire in October 2007 Mohammed-Benba-Kenâti, a notable leader of the SoninkeWangara clans in Mali This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
speak Soninke, a mande language. They were the founders of the ancient empire of Ghana, 750-1240 CE. Subgroups of Soninke include the Maraka and Wangara. After...
tradition claims Abu Bakr was killed in a clash with the "Gangara" (SoninkeWangara} of the Tagant Region of southern Mauritania), relating that he was...
Timbuktu, and then onto Djenne. There the salt was exchanged with the SoninkeWangara for gold. A final part, contains the only coeval account of the rediscovery...
bends of the Senegal and Niger rivers. After unifying Manden, he added the Wangara goldfields, making them the southern border. The northern commercial towns...
and Rulers. London: McFarland. p. 128. ISBN 0-7864-2562-8. Wilks,Ivor. Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1997)....
credited with formulating this rationale is Sheikh Al-Hajj Salim Suwari, a Soninke cleric from the core Mali area who lived around 1500. He made hajj to Mecca...
Dagbon Traditional Religion. Islam was brought to the region by Soninke (known as Wangara by Ghanaians) traders between the 12th and 15th centuries. Since...
Benin); Gwari (in central Nigeria); and the Mandinka, Bambara, Dioula and Soninke (in Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast and Guinea).[citation needed] All...
the "Island of Gold", first mentioned by al-Masudi, and famously called "Wangara" by al-Idrisi and "Palolus" in the 1367 Pizzigani brothers chart. It is...
the 14th century, as a result of trade with Wangara (also Wankore) merchants, a mobile caste of the Soninkes from the then Mali Empire who entered Yorubaland...
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