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    The Susu people are a Mande-speaking ethnic group living primarily in Guinea and northwestern Sierra Leone, particularly in Kambia District. Influential...
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  • Look up susu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Susu may refer to: Susu people or Soussou, an ethnic group in Guinea Susu language, language spoken by...
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  • The Susu language (endonym: Susu: Sosoxui; French: Soussou) is the language of the Susu or Soso people of Guinea and Sierra Leone, West Africa. It is in...
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  • artisans among Susu people such as smiths, carpenters, musicians and bards (Yeliba), jewelers and leatherworkers are separate castes. The Susu people believe...
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  • A susu or sou-sou or osusu or asue (also known as a merry-go-round, Partner, or Pawdna in Jamaica; sol in Haiti; , san in Dominican Republic, and Njangi...
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  • ethnicities include the Soninke and Susu as well as smaller ethnic groups such as the Ligbi, Vai, and Bissa. The Mandé-speaking people inhabit various environments...
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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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    Abdulai Conteh (category Susu people)
    Chiefdom in Kambia District, British Sierra Leone. He was from Sierra Leone's Susu ethnic group, which is predominantly based in the north-eastern part of the...
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    Soumaoro Kanté (category Susu people)
    Sumaworo Kanté or Sumanguru Kanté) was a 13th-century king of the Sosso people. Seizing Koumbi Saleh, the capital of the recently defunct Ghana Empire...
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    Lansana Conté (category Susu people)
    summit in Lomé, Togo, thwarted a coup d'état. Conté, a member of the Susu people (or Sousou), used the opportunity to eliminate rival soldiers from the...
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    is related to the Baga language spoken in Guinea. In 1642, a Susu caravan of 1,500 people led by Touré, Fofana, Yansané, Youla, and Doumbouya from the...
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  • understood by their neighbours and close allies the Mandinka and the Susu people. The Kuranko occupy a mountainous region within the northeastern Sierra...
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  • Susu collectors are a traditional form of financial intermediaries in Africa, predominantly in Ghana. For a small fee they provide an informal means for...
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    Issiaga Sylla (category Susu people)
    Issiaga Sylla (born 1 January 1994) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ligue 1 club Montpellier and the Guinea national...
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    instruments percussionists and composers use in contemporary music that most people would not consider musical instruments. It is worthwhile to try to distinguish...
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  • Fodé Soumah (category Susu people)
    Fodé Soumah is a politician from Guinea. Soumah was a prominent figure in the ruling Party of Unity and Progress and was appointed as the Deputy Governor...
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    largest population of ethnic Susu in Sierra Leone. Most of the Susu people in Sierra Leone live in Kambia District. The Susu along with the Temne form one...
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    Kerfalla Yansané (category Susu people)
    Kerfalla Yansané is a Guinean diplomat serving as Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea in the United States since 2018. A lawyer by training, he got his...
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    Momo Yansané (category Susu people)
    Momo Yansané (born 29 July 1997) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Torpedo Kutaisi in Georgia and the Guinea national football...
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    Sosso Empire (redirect from Susu Empire)
    The Sosso Empire, also written as Soso or Susu, or alternatively Kaniaga, was kingdom of West Africa that originated as a vassal of the Ghana Empire before...
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  • Mahawa Bangoura (category Susu people)
    Mahawa Bangoura Camara (born 13 March 1927) is a Guinean diplomat and politician. She is the first woman to serve as Foreign Minister of Guinea. She was...
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  • Ibrahima Sory Sankhon (category Susu people)
    Ibrahima Sory Sankhon (born 1 January 1996) is a Guinean footballer who plays as a midfielder. On 4 July 2023, Sankhon signed a one-season contract with...
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  • Morlaye Sylla (category Susu people)
    Morlaye Sylla (born 27 July 1998) is a Guinean international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Arouca and the Guinea national team. Sylla made his...
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  • Makalé Camara (category Susu people)
    Hadja Makalé Camara (born 1956) is a Guinean lawyer, diplomat and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea from 4 January 2016...
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    Ibrahima Kassory Fofana (category Susu people)
    program aimed at lifting 40% of Guineans, which represents six million people, out of extreme poverty by 2025. On 5 September 2021, the entire Guinean...
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  • M'Balia Camara (category Susu people)
    independence struggle; one estimate placed the crowd at her funeral at over 10,000 people, rather than the 1,500 claimed by police. Songs were written about her sacrifice...
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  • Osman Foday Yansaneh (category Susu people)
    a Sierra Leonean politician who has been Secretary-General of the All People's Congress political party, the ruling party in Sierra Leone, since 2012...
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  • Mandingo people (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia) Susu people (Guinea, Sierra Leone) Yalunka people (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali) Bafour people (Senegal...
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  • Mafory Bangoura (category Susu people)
    circa 1910; her family were farmers and fishermen from the ethnic Soussou people. She learnt to read and write as an adult, as she had not received a western...
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    information can be seen as a map. The Susu (or Soso) tribe live in and around the park and most park personnel are Susu. Some villages were originally in...
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