• The Mandé peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of native African ethnic groups who speak Mande languages. Various Mandé-speaking ethnic groups are found...
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    The Mande languages (Mandén, Manding; [needs IPA]) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include...
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  • Look up mande or Mande in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mande may refer to: Mandé peoples of western Africa Mande languages, their Niger-Congo languages...
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    as 2500 BC. By 250 BC, a Mandé subgroup, the Bozo, founded the city of Djenne. Between 300 AD and 1100 AD, the Soninke Mandé dominated the Western Mali...
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    population of Soninke people is estimated to be over 2 million. The cultural practices of Soninke people are similar to the Mandé peoples, and those of the...
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  • This is a list of Mandé peoples of Africa. The predominant countries of each group's residence are shown in bold and are italicised. Manding (whose languages...
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    arrival of the Mandé peoples.: 6  In this respect Walter Rodney places them alongside the Landuma people, the Baga people, and the Temne people. The Simo is...
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    subgroup of the Mandé peoples and one of the largest ethnic-linguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the Mande language family...
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    peoples living on the southern bank of Brahmaputra River, but now refers primarily to those who call themselves A•chik Mande (literally "hill people,"...
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    of as a southern extension of the Mandé people who live in what is now Burkina Faso, rather than an intrusive Mandé group that has recently penetrated...
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  • (plural)) is a Mande ethnic group of south-central Burkina Faso, northeastern Ghana and the northernmost tip of Togo. Their language, Bissa, is a Mande language...
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  • Other ironworking societies such as the Mandé peoples of Mali and the Bamana exist in West Africa. The Nok people of Nigeria show the art of blacksmiths...
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  • the farthest reaches of Mandé influence, and the other was the settlement of Mandé-speakers along the West Atlantic coast. Mandé-speakers moved west and...
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    The Vai are Mandé peoples that live mostly in Liberia, with a small minority living in south-eastern Sierra Leone. The Vai are known for their indigenous...
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  • language, one of the Manding languages Mandinka people, a West African ethnic group The Mandé peoples who speak Manding languages: Mandinka, Malinké,...
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  • population of Soninke people is estimated to be over 2 million. The cultural practices of Soninke people are similar to the Mandé peoples, and includes social...
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    southwestern Mali. The Yalunka are a branch of the Mandé peoples and are closely related to the Susu people. Some scholars classify the two as one group, The...
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  • multiethnic country, with a majority of its population consisting of Mandé peoples. Mali's history is dominated by its role in trans-Saharan trade, connecting...
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    Music of Mali (redirect from Mande music)
    of the ancient Mali Empire of the Mandinka (from c. 1230 to c. 1600). Mande people (Bambara, Mandinka, Soninke) make up around 50% of Mali's population;...
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    Joseph Mande (born March 16, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. Mande was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Louis Mande, a lawyer...
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  • to early 17th centuries—lançados started trading with the Susu and Mandé peoples. They lived relatively far inland. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries...
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    inhabitants fished and grew millet. It has been found that the Soninke of the Mandé peoples were responsible for constructing such settlements. Around 300 BC, the...
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    such as the Mandingo, Fula and Temne peoples live there too. The Loko belong to the larger group of Mande peoples who live throughout West Africa. The...
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    Sahara and Sahel in Northern West Africa, the Nilo-Saharan speakers and Mandé peoples started to collect and domesticate wild millet, African rice and sorghum...
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  • Mansa (title): "sultan", "king" or "emperor" Mande languages Manding languages Mandinka people Mandé peoples Mandinka at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Maŋ...
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    , and were found to have originated from the Soninke branch of the Mandé peoples. Also, based on the archaeology of the city of Kumbi Saleh in modern-day...
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    languages of the Ijaw people (3 million as of 2011), plus the moribund Defaka language. Mande: languages of the Mandé peoples, estimated at 70 million...
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  • and engineers. The mano alongside their Dan brothers descend from the Mandé peoples. The Dan are known as the "small brothers" of the Mano. They subsequently...
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    The Bozo (Bambara: ߓߏ߬ߛߏ, romanized: Boso) are a Mande ethnic group located predominantly along the Niger River in Mali. The name Bozo is thought to derive...
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    Mali Empire (redirect from Mande Empire)
    name Mali is derived from Mandé mali "hippopotamus", an animal that had special significance to the Keitas, and that Mandé means "little manatee". A legend...
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