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Kante brought Guinean, and Mandingo, culture to the world.
From Washington Times ● May 22, 2020
Operators speak French and at least five dialects of West African languages like Mandingo and Pulaar.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
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
The Mandingo Empire was finally brought down, not in battle, but by a famine.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Towards nightfall I left my companions, and wrapping myself closely in a Mandingo dress, stole away through bye-ways to a brook which runs by the town-walls.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
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
The object of his journey, Musardu, the chief city of the Western Mandingoes, was at length reached, just on the edge of the primeval forest.
From History of Liberia Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by John Hanson Thomas McPherson
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
His reception of myself and Ali-Ninpha was extremely cordial; but the Fullah chief was addressed with cold formality, for the Mandingoes have but little patience with the well-known haughtiness of their national rivals.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
At Essaw this small force was attacked by a large body of Mandingoes, and compelled to retire to Fort Bullen, to which place the victorious Mandingoes advanced, completely investing it on the land side.
From The History of the First West India Regiment by A. B. (Alfred Burdon) Ellis
The inhabitants are mostly Fula, though the trade is largely in the hands of Mandingos.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
The Mandingos, or book-men, are great fetish makers, many of them being well versed in the Arabic tongue, and writing it in a neat character.
From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Joseph Corry
The Fulis principal settlement is on both sides of the Senegal; great numbers of these people are also mixed with the Mandingos; which last are mostly settled on both sides the Gambia.
From Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects by Anthony Benezet
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
This part of Africa, as ascertained by Mr. Park, communicates, by its rivers to the Niger, and introduces us to the interior of this great continent; and, from other sources of information, Foolahs, Mandingos, &c.
From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Joseph Corry
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