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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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The name Dara comes from the Malinke word dala, which means 'pond'.
The Keitas are from the Malinke (meh-ling-KEE) tribe, who take great pride in their ancestry.
Modern-day Mande languages include Kpelle in Liberia, Mende in Sierra Leone, and Bamana, Malinke and Soninke in Mali.
 
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