The Soninke people are a West African Mande-speaking ethnic group found in Mali, southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea (especially...

The Soninke language (Soninke: Sooninkanxanne, سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ), also known as Serakhulle or Azer or Maraka, is a Mande language spoken by the Soninke people...

Soninke may refer to: Soninke people Soninke language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Soninke. If an internal link led...

The Soninke people are a West African ethnic group that is spread widely over the Sahel region. Their history, as recorded in oral traditions, medieval...

kingdom. Kaya Maghan (king of gold) was another title for these kings. The Soninke name for the polity was Ouagadou. This meant the "place of the Wague",...

Wakore, Wankori, Ouankri, Wangarawa) are a diaspora community of ethnic Soninke origin who served as specialized long-distance merchants throughout West...

Wagadu (Mauritania) The ancient Soninke goddess also named Wagadu, whose disappearance and rediscovery are the subject of the ancient Dausi epic in a...

Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are...

The Soninke-Marabout War of 1850 to 1856 was a civil war between factions of the Kingdom of Kombo in the Gambia. The war resulted from a dispute between...

Tuareg and French) Mauritania (with several national languages: Fula, Soninke, Wolof) Morocco (with Berber) Niger (with French, Buduma, Fula, Gourmanché...

part of the Ghana Empire. Islam was introduced through Toucouleur and Soninke contact with the Almoravid dynasty of the Maghreb, who in turn propagated...

West African empires. Other large Mandé-speaking ethnicities include the Soninke and Susu as well as smaller ethnic groups such as the Ligbi, Vai, and Bissa...

Zenaga, Azer and Hassaniyya. The name "Nemadi" itself appears to come from Soninke, where it means "master of dogs". According to Robert Arnaud (1906), "around...

The Soninke–Bozo languages, Soninke and Bozo, form a branch of the Mande languages spoken across western Africa. v t e...

breaking away and conquering their former overlords. Inhabited by the Soninke ancestors of the modern-day Sosso people, it was centered in the region...

Kaya Maghan (meaning ruler of gold) (c. 700) was the possibly legendary Soninke founder of Wagadou, also known as the Ghana Empire. He founded the Cissé...

Gassire's Lute is an epic by the Soninke people of West Africa. It was collected by Leo Frobenius and published in 1921. An English prose translation...

Fula, Arabic, Kassonke, Maninke, Minyanka, Senufo, Songhay languages, Soninke and Tamasheq are official languages. French is the working language. French...

Cissé is a common West African name of Soninke origin, and the meaning of Cissé is the white horse in the same language.  Notable people with the surname...

larger numbers of indigenous sub-Saharan African peoples (Haalpulaar, Soninke, and Wolof) migrated into it, most of them settling in the area north of...

Jola-Fonyi, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon (Serer-Noon), Pulaar, Serer, and Soninke. In terms of usage, Wolof is the lingua franca and the most widely spoken...

BC, early cities and towns were created by Mande peoples related to the Soninke people, along the middle Niger River in central Mali, including Dia which...

first language by 38% of the population, Pulaar by 21%, Wolof by 18%, Soninke by 9 percent, Jola by 4.5 percent, Serer by 2.4 percent, Manjak and Bainouk...

by a hunter from The Jaguraga Kunda tribe Bundankoro Jaguraga. It is a Soninke-speaking village with a population of approximately 3780. The village is...

in the Senegambia region, often classified as a subgroup of the larger Soninke. The Jakhanke have historically constituted a specialized caste of professional...

include the official language, Arabic, three national languages, Pulaar, Soninke and Wolof, and French, a former official language which is still the language...

Diarra, also referred to as Kingui, Diafunu, or Kaniaga was a Soninke state in what is now northwestern Mali, centered around the town of Diarra. Diarra...

Mokole Soso–Jalonke (Susu–Yalunka) Southwestern Mande Vai–Kono Northwest (Samogo–Soninke) Bobo Jowulu (Jɔ) Samogo (partial: Duun–Sembla) Soninke–Bozo...

800 BC. Both Dhar Tichitt and Dia were founded by the same people: the Soninke, who would later also found the Ghana Empire. Another ancient site, Jenné-Jeno...

Jula traders emerging from Soninke Wangara lineages. The name derives from 'Biru' meaning 'market', the original Soninke name for Walata, an important...