Mende
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Mendes,
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Mende
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a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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a Niger-Congo language of the Mande branch spoken by the Mende people.
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Some are beautiful, if obscure, like the Mende mask from Sierra Leone, and the white oak plate and vessel from 20th century Ukraine, crockery made from a tree sacred to Ukrainians.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2020
Scientists found links to the Mende people of Sierra Leone, Yoruba as well as Esan people in Nigeria, plus other groups in western areas of The Gambia.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2020
Davis’ first opera, “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” opened in 1986, and in 1997 he premiered “Amistad,” based on the rebellion of Mende captives on a Spanish slave ship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2019
Nielsen’s win came 24 hours after team-mate Omar Fraile won - also from a breakaway - in Mende.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2018
So I said hello in Mende, my tribal language.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
“After four months of oil-supply disruption, Canadian inflationary pressures still look relatively muted,” Royce Mendes, head of macroeconomic policy at Desjardins, said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
This pinned back Paris St-Germain left-back Nuno Mendes and created space for Cole Palmer in the 3-0 win in New Jersey.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The producer, who’s also known for his work with Phoebe Bridgers and Shawn Mendes, remembers the first time they made music in the studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Instead, defender Nuno Mendes sprinted in and drove a low, left-footed strike into the bottom of the net.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Goodness knows what outcrops Messrs. Caster and Mendes had looked at, because in fact many of the rock formations on both sides of the Atlantic are the same–not just very similar but the same.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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