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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Baggara tribes, Hausa, Mandinka, Zaghawa people, Fula people, Mandinka people, Hawazma tribe, Fur people, Bayajidda, Idriss Deby, Hausa people, Kanuri people, Messiria tribe, Toubou people, Baggara Arabs, Bori religion, Hadjarai peoples, Sara people, Mandinka language, Kanembu people, Minni Minnawi, Diffa Arabs, Tunjur people, Maguzawa Hausa people, Anakaza tribe, Sabo Quarter, Beni Halba tribe, Musgum people, Bilala people, Awlad Himayd, Kano Chronicle, Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo, Masalit people, Lisi people, Tupuri people, Haddad people, Buduma people, Bidayat dialect, Ta'isha tribe, Daza people, Maba people, List of ethnic groups in Chad, Gwandara language, Teda people, Yerwa Kanuri people, Tama people, Kimr people, Mararit people, Habbaniya tribe, Shuweihat tribe, Kim people, Sungor people, Fongoro people, Andang, Sinyar people. Excerpt: The Mandinka, Malinke (also known as Mandinko) are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa with an estimated population of eleven million (the other 3 major ethnic groups in the region being the non-related Fula, Hausa and Songhai). They are the descendants of the Mali Empire, which rose to power under the rule of the great Mandinka king Sundiata Keita. The Mandinka in turn belong to West Africa's largest ethnolinguistic group, the Mande, who account for more than twenty million people (including the Dyula, Bozo, Bissa and Bambara). Today, over 99% of Mandinka in Africa are Muslim. The Mandinka live primarily in West Africa, particularly in The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Niger, Mauritania and even small communities in the central African nation of Chad. Although widespread, the Mandinka do not form the largest ethnic group in any of the countries in which they live except The Gambia. Most Mandinkas live in f...
