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stupidest man alive. NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER! choose him as a project because you will be sorry.basically all he is known for is loosing the kingdom(what a loser). and he ruled in the 13th century.

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+stupidest man alive. NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER! choose him as a project because you will be sorry.basically all he is known for is loosing the kingdom(what a loser). and he ruled in the 13th century.
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-'''Soumaoro Kanté''' (var.: Sumanguru Kanté) was a thirteenth century king of the [[Sosso]] people.  Seizing [[Koumbi Saleh]], the capital of the recently-defunct [[Ghana Empire]], Soumaoro Kanté proceeded to conquer several neighboring states, including the [[Mandinka people]] in what is now [[Mali]].  However, the Mandinka prince [[Sundiata Keita]] built a coalition of smaller kingdoms to oppose him at the [[Battle of Kirina]] (c. 1240),  defeating the Sosso and leaving Sundiata's new [[Mali Empire]] dominant in the region.
-Soumaoro Kanté is portrayed as a villainous sorcerer-king in the national epic of Mali, the [[Epic of Sundiata]].  After his defeat at Kirina, he flees into the mountains of [[Koulikoro (region)|Koulikoro]], where he disappears after being shot with only weapon to which he is vulnerable - an arrow with a white rooster crest on it. In the [[Epic of Sundiata]], Soumaoro Kanté is described as owning a [[balafon]] with magical powers, which is stolen by Sundiata Keita's [[Griot|djeli]], Balafasseke Kouyate, and brought to [[Manden]]. This is the origin of the Manden djeli tradition of [[balafon]] playing. The balafon of Soumaoro Kanté is said to be kept by the [[Kouyate]] family to this day in the village of Niagassola in [[Guinea]].
-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
-* Davidson, Basil. ''Africa in History''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
-* Charry, Eric. ''Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa''. Chicago: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, 2000.
-==External links==
-*[http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/mansa/ Sundiata and Mansa Musa on the Web] web directory
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