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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
Samori Touré is a hero of the Mandingo people.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
You may imagine my joy and comfort when I saw the Mandingo take a seat near the prince, as a signal for the din’s cessation.
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
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
The news of this repulse was received with the greatest consternation at Bathurst, which was entirely denuded of troops and quite at the mercy of the rebellious Mandingoes.
From The History of the First West India Regiment by A. B. (Alfred Burdon) Ellis
His stay here enabled him to obtain more accurate information than his predecessors with regard to the Feloups, the Yolofs, the Foulahs, and the Mandingoes.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett
The Mandingoes of the most cultivated type seldom found their way to the West Indies.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 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
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
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
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
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
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