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Malinke
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Malinke

 or Mandinka or Mandingo

Cluster of peoples occupying parts of Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. They speak a Mande language of the Niger-Congo family. Numbering 4.7 million, they are divided into numerous independent groups dominated by a hereditary nobility. One group, the Kangaba, has one of the world's most ancient dynasties; its rule has been virtually continuous since the 7th-century founding of the Mali empire. Most contemporary Malinke grow millet and sorghum and tend cattle. In religion they are divided among Islam and indigenous faiths.
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This view, prompted by the need to localize former colonial languages in such a manner that they will also carry the weight of the African author and/or the former colonized experience, is also shared by the late Ivorian author, Ahmadou Kourouma who says that: J'ai pensé en malinké et écrit en Français en prenant une liberté que j'estime naturelle avec la langue classique.
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