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The idea for the name — “Sound of Africa” in Mandingo — came from his father, Mamady Keita, a prominent Guinean drummer who died last year.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
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 neighbouring Liberia's Mandingo ethnic community.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2013
Samori Touré is a hero of the Mandingo people.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
He was feasted also by a number of Moors, who spoke good Mandingo, and were more civil to him than their countrymen had before been.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
He found the land constantly rising, and made his way to Musardu, the chief city of the western Mandingoes.
From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
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
It was a small place surrounded by high walls, inhabited by a mixture of Mandingoes and Foulahs, chiefly employed in the cultivation of corn.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
Moors, Mandingoes, Foolahs, and Jaloofs, principally dwell in this vast region of West-Central Africa.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 by Robert Chambers
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
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
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
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
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
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