Mandinka
The Mandinka people (also Mandingo , Mandinko , Sose ) are an ethnic group of West Africa , whose members define themselves as genetic or cultural descendants of the prehistoric kingdom of Mali , which controlled the Trans-Saharan trade from the Magreb to West Africa. It was headed by Sundiata Keïta in the early 13th century . In the same century, the Mandinka spread from present-day Mali in a large empire. A later state of the Mandinka was Kaabu .
Distribution area
Today the Mandinka live predominantly in Gambia , Guinea , Senegal and Mali . A larger number of the Mandinka also live in Guinea-Bissau , Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso . About 160,000 Mandingo live in Sierra Leone (as of 2015).
Smaller groups of this ethnic group can also be found in many other countries in western Africa , such as Mauritania , the Ivory Coast and Liberia .
Trivia
A famous Mandinka is Alex Haley alleged ancestor Kunta Kinte , who by the book Roots (dt .: roots ) who and television series of the same name became known. The family connection between him and Kunta Kinte reconstructed by Haley is doubted by historians.
Sinéad O'Connor refers to Haley's book in the song "Mandinka".
The name of the people in the spelling Mandingo became known through the film of the same name by Richard Fleischer . Here he is referring to gladiator fights between slaves in the American southern states, a motif that Quentin Tarantino took up again in his film Django Unchained . Such exhibition fights between African slaves, on which their white owners made bets, are only recorded for the crossings on the slave ships . Fight dances like the Brazilian Capoeira or the Maní in Cuba emerged from them . Exhibition fights organized by whites by African slaves may still have taken place locally in the New World, but there are no reliable sources for this.
Another famous Mandinka is Alpha Condé , President of the Republic of Guinea since 2010 and President of the African Union in 2017/18.
See also
Web links
literature
- Fred Lindsey: Mandinka. In: Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Supplement , Gale Group ISBN 0-02-865671-7 , pp. 194–197 [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census national analytical report. Statistics Sierra Leone, October 2017, p. 89ff.
- ↑ Michael Zeuske : slave traders, Negreros and Atlantic Creoles. A world history of the slave trade in the Atlantic area. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-042672-4 , p. 101 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).