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Kante brought Guinean, and Mandingo, culture to the world.
From Washington Times ● May 22, 2020
The Guerze are mostly Christian or animist, while the Konianke are Muslims considered to be close to the Mandingo ethnic community who live in neighbouring countries.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2013
Mr. Sidibé, 59, is a former relief worker, rather than a physician, and, along with English and French, he speaks West African Mandingo, the Tamashek of the Tuaregs and other languages.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2012
The Mandingo Empire was finally brought down, not in battle, but by a famine.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Of these— A. Eight belonged to the Mandingo group, viz.,
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Upon inquiry, I found that English was the least of his languages, preceded by his own tongue and the speech of the Mandingoes.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
I found this signally illustrated by the prince and people of New Sestros, and very soon detected their great inferiority to the Soosoos, Mandingoes, and Veys.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
He lost no time in purchasing the necessary merchandise, and joined some Mandingoes and "seracolets," or wandering African merchants.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
It will be readily conjectured that a very few years sufficed to make Jack Ormond not only a wealthy merchant, but a popular Mongo among the great interior tribes of Foulahs and Mandingoes.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
The Mandingoes, who form a considerable part of the inhabitants, are Mahommedans and the most civilized people on the Gambia.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
In all the towns the population largely consists of aliens—Hausa, Ashanti, Mandingos, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
Mandingos, from the river-systems of the Senegal and Gambia.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Formerly this tribe of Mandingos were itinerant fetish makers and priests, but now they are numerous to the northward of Sierra Leone, from whence a wide district receives their rulers and chieftains.
From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Joseph Corry
From what I have before stated, it will appear that the Mandingos are a numerous people in Africa, gaining a daily influence and authority in the district now under consideration.
From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Joseph Corry
When they came within a hundred yards of the gate, the singing men began a loud song, extolling the hospitality of the inhabitants towards strangers, and their friendship in particular to the Mandingos.
From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Huish
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